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World Water Day Featured Campaign: Think Outside the Bottle
By: Chris Michael
Global
Environment, Water
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Think Outside the Bottle is a campaign working to promote, protect and ensure public funding for our public water systems. That means challenging corporations who undermine public confidence in tap water. It also means working with mayors, faith groups, restaurants, celebrities, campuses, and individuals to support public systems by opting for tap over bottled water. more
Every Human Has Rights: Speak Out
By: Every Human Has Rights
Global
Every Human Has Rights, Tell Your Story, The Elders
Many of the world's foremost human rights organizations have come together to bring the Every Human Has Rights Campaign to life, to send the message that it's time for people all over the world to reclaim the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and realize their own rights. We want to hear from you wherever you live on earth. You can click here to tell us your human rights story, or use the Hub to submit an audio or video file.
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Every Human Has Rights: Speak Out
By: Every Human Has Rights
Global
Every Human Has Rights, Tell Your Story, The Elders
Many of the world's foremost human rights organizations have come together to bring the Every Human Has Rights Campaign to life, to send the message that it's time for people all over the world to reclaim the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and realize their own rights. We want to hear from you wherever you live on earth. You can click here to tell us your human rights story, or use the Hub to submit an audio or video file.
After massive protests in Burma, world refuses to let dust settle
By: Ryan Schlief
Burma, Thailand
Detention, Freedom of opinion & expression, Internally displaced persons
burma, Detention, IDPs, karen, myanmar, political prisoners, violence
Beginning August 19, 2007 there was a series of peaceful protests across Burma as monks, activists and ordinary citizens challenged misrule and repression. On September 26, the Burmese military government responded with violence. Thousands were detained, hundreds disappeared and the country is in the grip of repression...
Listen to Our Voice: Making the Case against Torture in Papua
By: Ryan Schlief
Indonesia
Torture/ill treatment
indonesia, torture, West Papua
SKP and other organizations in Indonesia collectively submitted a report to the UN Committee against Torture in May on the widespread use of torture by the police and security forces. Strengthening its written submission and personal testimonies, SKP screened its video on torture in Papua, Listen to Our Voice, to members of the Committee.
Olympics pressure Government of China to address long-standing grievances in Tibet
By: Ryan Schlief
Global, China, Tibet
Freedom of opinion & expression
china, freedom, human_rights, Olympics, tibet, Tibet Uprising
In their bid to host the 2008 games, the Government of China pledged, among other items, to improve human rights and uphold media freedom. The violent unrest in Tibet in March, the dramatic curtailing of basic rights, including media freedom, in Tibetan areas and the global protests against the Government's policies in Tibet have tarnished the Government’s intended unveiling of a more open and free China.
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