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...
Sean Goldman is still in
Brazil! Please make sure
that you have signed the
petition demanding the
return of this child to
his father. Currently,
the petition has over
55,000 signatures but
needs as much support as
possible.
click here
Also, please v...
The author is Professor
Robert Watson of Lynn
University who was
once a writer for the New
York Times.
Professor Watson writes:
Hi friends,
I am always being asked
to grade Obama's
presidency. In place of
offering him a grade, I
put togethe...
You probably won't hear
anything in the news
about this anniversary
until the 50th is
reached.
However, I realized that
it is significant in the
fact that Kennedy was
forty-six years old at
the time of his death.
For those who were alive
and old en...
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 ...
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