Today Bloggers all over the world are uniting to bring awareness to Human Rights issues. I am joining Bloggers Unite by asking all of you to take today’s 5 Little Things Challenge for Human Rights.
5 Little Things - To Make a Difference for Human Rights
Voice your concern over Chinese Human Rights Violations and Send a letter to Yahoo!
Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, is serving a ten-year prison sentence for sending an email to the U.S. Yahoo! helped put him there. We must tell US Corporations that we will not tolerate actions abroad that we would not tolerate at home.
Tell Secretary of State Rice that the violence must stop in Darfur.
The U.S Administration can influence European and other donor countries to provide much needed equipment, and it can offer to provide funds for the helicopters itself. The U.S Administration can influence mutual allies to press the Government of Sudan to quit stalling and facilitate the deployment of UNAMID.
Support the survivors of Hurricane Katrina by asking the Senate to support Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act (S. 1668).
Many residents of the Gulf coast region were evacuated because of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Nearly three years later, why are survivors who want to return still stranded and displaced?
Sign the international pledge on Internet freedom and publish irrepressible fragments of censored material on your own blog or website.
It is imperative that we stop censorship of the Internet.
Send an urgent appeal to defend activists in Mexico!
In Mexico, environmental activists working to protect their lands and livelihoods from encroaching economic interests have faced grave danger due to brutal efforts to silence their protests, including death threats to themselves and their families, violent attacks and unjust imprisonment.
We can all make a difference. Take 15 minutes to do all of these 5 Little Things right now.
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May 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Bruce, these are all worthy causes, thank you for sharing them. I’ve checked out all of them and submitted a few letters as well.
I’d also urge others to take a look at American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
I recently became a member with them. They are an organization supporting and defending our civil liberties as declared in the constitution. They’ve been a non-profit org. since their founding in the early 1920’s. If you’d like to take action, but don’t know what to do, I highly recommend consider taking a look at some of their initiatives. =)
Jonathan
http://jonathanmead.com - Authenticity, Clarity, Balance
May 17th, 2008 at 12:49 am
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May 17th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Five good causes making up a meaningful post. Thanks for your thoughts on human rights. As the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reminds us, “…recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”
Dave Donelson, author of Heart of Diamonds
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