| TAKE ACTION: “Tell your senators to vote YES to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell!” | |
| By Rightswire · Posted on August 11, 2010 at 1:50 pm ·
Filed under Feeds, Headlines, Highlight, Take Action Topics: Civil and Political Rights, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights |
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The Senate is set to vote soon on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” – but a right-wing barrage of emails and calls opposing repeal is already well... Read more » |
| TAKE ACTION: Help Keep Shelters Open and Expand Services to Survivors of Domestic Abuse | |
| By Rightswire · Posted on August 11, 2010 at 1:43 pm ·
Filed under Headlines, Take Action Topics: Women's Rights |
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The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), a vital source of funding for programs that aid survivors of domestic abuse, expired in 2008 and desperately... Read more » |
| TAKE ACTION: Tell the President to ban landmines (HRW) | |
| By Rightswire · Posted on August 11, 2010 at 12:29 pm ·
Filed under Headlines, Highlight, Take Action Topics: Civil and Political Rights, Legislation, U.S. and International Human Rights |
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Landmines claim thousands of casualties every year and inhibit socio-economic development in countries recovering from conflict. As Commander in Chief, President... Read more » |
| TAKE ACTION: Tell Google: Don’t be evil | |
| By change.org · Posted on August 10, 2010 at 5:25 pm ·
Filed under Highlight, Take Action Topics: Media and Human Rights |
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Targeting: Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Founders, Google) Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil,” but Google is about to cut a deal with Verizon... Read more » |
| TAKE ACTION: Pressure Senators to Ask HHS Nominee Kathleen Sebelius about the HIV Ban | |
| By Victoria Neilson · Posted on March 31, 2009 at 10:24 am ·
Filed under Take Action Topics: Civil and Political Rights, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Immigration, Legislation |
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Physicians for Human Rights has set up an action page asking Senator Senator Barbara Mikulski and Senator Bernie Sanders to make sure that Sebelius will make lifting... Read more » |
| TAKE ACTION: Help Raise the US HIV Travel Ban at HHS Senate Confirmation Hearings | |
| By Jirair Ratevosian · Posted on March 30, 2009 at 12:27 pm ·
Filed under Take Action Topics: Civil and Political Rights, Immigration, Legislation |
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This week’s Senate confirmation hearing for President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) offers a key opportunity to press the... Read more » |
| TAKE ACTION – March 30: National call-in day to ban cluster bombs | |
| By Mary Shaw · Posted on March 30, 2009 at 5:34 am ·
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I’ve written in the past about the problems associated with the use of cluster bombs in warfare. They are indiscriminate and imprecise, and they are notorious... Read more » |
| TAKE ACTION: Stop Violence Against Women | |
| By Rightswire · Posted on March 1, 2009 at 11:52 am ·
Filed under Take Action Topics: Women's Rights |
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Every day, millions of women and girls across the world are beaten and abused. They are someone’s mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends. Many are abused in... Read more » |
| TAKE ACTION: Stop Harmful Anti-Youth Legislation | |
| By Rightswire · Posted on March 1, 2009 at 11:38 am ·
Filed under Take Action Topics: Children's Rights, Legislation |
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Harmful gang legislation is pending in Congress that places excessive emphasis on increasing sentences (including life without parole penalties for youth) and will... Read more » |
| TAKE ACTION: Uphold Human Rights in the Gulf Coast | |
| By Rightswire · Posted on December 16, 2008 at 1:11 am ·
Filed under Take Action Topics: Housing, Poverty |
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August 29th, 2008 marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of people are still homeless or live in inadequate temporary housing. Every Katrina... Read more » |
