“I have both the right and the duty to write to you, for my heart is seething with indignation, and I was not endowed with the gift of speech merely to make myself an accomplice by remaining silent.”
So wrote Armin T. Wegner in 1933, in an open letter to Adolf Hitler to express his deep [...]
Video: Appeal by Zainab Bangura, Sierra Leone’s Foreign Minister (a former civil society activist)
Avaaz is organising a petition to world leaders at this week’s emergency UN summit on the skyrocketing world food crisis: “There is a real danger that rich country leaders will push half measures and band-aid solutions – we need a huge global [...]
United for Africa is a collaborative effort to map incidents of xenophobic violence in Southern Africa, including by SMS.
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A coalition of human rights, legal and union activists has succeeded in preventing a Chinese ship from delivering 77 tons of weapons and ammunitions to Zimbabwe’s army via the South African port of Durban. South African President Thabo Mbeki had earlier said that the government was “powerless” to stop the transfer, but activists obtained a [...]
Following Steven Spielberg’s resignation as Artistic Director of the Beijing Olympics, a number of leading advocacy groups have released a joint statement calling on China ‘to use all the influence at its disposal to press the Sudanese government to a) permit the swift, full and effective deployment of UNAMID; b) implement the North-South peace deal [...]