Hey Everyone! Minority Rights Group International has recently launched a campaign to help the Endorois people of Kenya. They are an indigenous group who is being ignored in discussion of further development of their lands for the purpose of tourism. Please check out the website www.minorityrights.org/troubleinparadise and sign the petition! Let me know if you have any questions/comments/concerns Thanks! -MRG
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By Farah Mihlar
I am feeling slightly
apprehensive. A global
forum of 8000
environmentalists and
conservationists is not
familiar territory for a
human rights activist
like me - but here I am,
at the International
Union for Conservation of
Nature...
Dear friends and
supporters,
UN climate change
negotiations have begun
in Poznan and MRG is
supporting the call of
indigenous communities
for a resolution enabling
them to participate in
future climate change
negotiations.
We are pushing st...
You can make the
difference - we need your
signatures urgently.
Take action
http://www.minorityrights
.org/7117/a-show-of-hands
/take-action-now.html
States are meeting in
December to negotiate a
new climate change deal.
Those worst affected by
clim...
MUNCIE -- The clock is
ticking.
At age 21, Kelsey Koch is
fighting for her life.
Afflicted with Job's
Disease, more recently
pinpointed as genetic
Dock 8 Disease, she is in
dire need of a blood stem
cell transplant.
"All of my thoughts are
on get...
Take action by sending a
message to President
Obama now to let him know
you expect him to keep
Tibet on the agenda at
the US-China summit in
November and in all his
future meetings with
China. Nearly 6 million
Tibetans are counting on
you to tell the ...
Israel has destroyed the
lives of manyThey refuse
to let UN inspectors in
in spite of the UN
Resolutions that have
been passed. Since
Kennedy was in power they
have refused. They have
also taken money
Fraudulently from US tax
payers, as noted at the
...
Dear Fellow Democrats,
We have control of BOTH
the Executive and
Legislative branches yet
nothing is really getting
done.
It is time for the
leaders and members of
the Senate and the House
to get behind President
Obama and bring about all
the chang...
Where can you be denied
free legal
representation?Who can be
denied free legal
representation?In the UK
only disabled people have
to take their own cases
to court, the Human
Rights Commision takes
all other discrimination
cases to court for the
person...
Blog: Case against Ohio bodies suspect expands overseas by HM S.
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— CLEVELAND -- Authorities
are investigating whether
a suspected serial killer
whose home and yard
harbored the remains of
at least 11 people is
connected to any killings
in places he lived while
in the military,
including Japan,
California and the
Caro... more
Blog: TED Tuesday: Clean drinking water, quick and cheap by Radiance W.
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—
Too much of the world
lacks access to clean
drinking water. Engineer
Michael Pritchard did
something about it --
inventing the portable
Lifesaver filter, which
can make the most
revolting water drinkable
in seconds. An amazing
demo from TEDGlobal
200... more
Blog: Brazil college backs down on mini-dress expulsion by HM S.
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— SAO PAULO -- A Brazilian
woman whose short, pink
dress caused a near riot
at a private college and
led to her expulsion will
be allowed to return to
class. more
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