human rights

Drummer Lee Rigby is a British Hero who joined the service to protect his family and this Great Nation. Please show your respect by signing and joining our cause!  Rigby was killed in a brutal attack in London's Woolwich neighborhood on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The 25-year-old soldier from

We strongly urge Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN], Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT], and Rep. Raúl Grijalva [D-AZ3] to take immediate steps toward introducing legislation to ban or suspend the export of these harmful agents to Turkey.   Why?  Turkish police have used and continue to use these substances

If you are supporter of freedom of expression, equality, human rights, ecology, democracy and liberty then please help us raise awareness and sign this petition. You know who we are. Outside of the "branding" you have given us- looters, hooligans, vandals, and terrorists- we are students, doctors,

What do you think about the idea of allowing corporations and wealthy individuals to "own" life through patents and intellectual property?  We think that it's wrong and very dangerous to allow people in power to control our food freedom. We are also against them tinkering with nature's complex

In May 2013, the U.S. based women's organization, Women Deliver, had invited Indian politician J. S. Kurien, a man implicated in of the one highest profile gang-rape / sex trafficking cases (the Suryanelli case) of a teenage girl in India, to speak at their 2013 conference on women's

As anti-government protests enter their third week in Turkey, the brutal police crackdown on protestors continues, with more than 5,000 people reported injured, some critically, and at least 4 protesters dead. Meanwhile, the Turkish Health Ministry has issued a threat to take medical licenses to

Please sign the petition to support Chelsey! We cannot let the School Board of this school get away with such discrimination.

Upwards of 86% of the people that abuse animals abuse people! 90% of the abusers already have a criminal record! STOP ANIMAL ABUSE! We need a national reporting system as to WHO the Abusers are as they also abuse people. Members of Humanity Against Abuse would you please support as together we can

The CODEPINK delegation to Yemen is calling on U.S. Ambassador Gerald Feierstein to use his influence to end U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, which only strengthen extremists; to help release Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo who the U.S. government has already cleared for release; and to advocate for

Yesterday two men armed with long knives and meat cleavers decapitated an off-duty soldier on the streets of Woolwich, London while yelling "Allahu Akbar" - God is great.  While their actions were meant to strike back at the British military, it is the Muslim community at large who will