Sign the petition urging Secretary of State John Kerry to make ending gender-based violence a centerpiece of the United States' foreign assistance
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]]> Urge them to act quickly to raise the minimum marriage age to 18, put an end to the male guardianship system, and ensure appropriate safeguards to guarantee that a woman has a real choice in the timing of her marriage and the selection of her spouse.
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]]> arget: Wendy’s CEO, Emil Brolick

Goal: Support farm workers’ rights by paying an extra penny per pound of tomatoes

Mcdonald’s, Subway, Burger King, and Taco Bell have all signed onto the Fair Food Program, which increases Florida farm workers’
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]]> Each day, war and conflict forces families - mothers, fathers and children - to flee their homes. June 20th is World Refugee Day - UNHCR's chance to make it known that 1 family torn apart by war is too many.
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]]> Meet Cameron D’Ambrosio. He’s 18 and lives in a small town outside Boston. He wants to be a rapper and calls himself “Cammy Dee” in his YouTube videos.
Oh, and he’s been locked up without bail for weeks — facing terrorism charges and 20 years in prison
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]]> Over 10 million senior households struggle to meet basic needs and may not be able to afford their rent or utilities. One out of every three seniors is living below or near the poverty line. Nearly 9 million older Americans are at risk of hunger.
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]]> Tonight, chances are a senior in your community will go to bed hungry.
And your neighbor isn't the only one suffering: millions of older Americans were unable to afford a meal today. Without enough to eat, seniors struggling with
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]]> Twelve Federal agencies are developing a plan for Federal youth policy. We want the committee to include a policy requiring that youth-serving organizations receiving Federal funds have organizational policies, procedures and training in child sexual ab
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]]> There is no longer any reason for the Prevention of Terrorism Act in Sri Lanka; on the contrary, there are many compelling reasons as to why it should immediately be repealed. It was the existence of the LTTE and its ruthless violence that the government
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]]> In spite of massive protest locally and internationally, the government of the Philippines has not taken any significant steps to stop the extrajudicial killings. Either the government is unwilling or it is not capable of stopping such killings. It is
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]]> Bangladeshi workers making Joe Fresh clothing should be protected from preventable tragedies like fires and building collapses. Sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement."
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]]> Goal: Don’t lower the age requirement under which an adolescent may be considered a juvenile in India.

The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act has become the primary framework for legal justice regarding juveniles in India.
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]]> Goal: Shut down unsafe garment factories and improve worker safety standards

A large building housing several garment factories in Bangladesh recently collapsed, killing 87 people and injuring more than a thousan
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]]> The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides low-income families with the financial assistance they need to purchase food. SNAP is the United States' most successful anti-hunger program; close to 47 million low-income Americans used SNAP
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]]> oal: Ensure that employees understand Tourette’s syndrome and do not prevent passengers who suffer from it from flying

Recently, Tourette’s sufferer Michael Doyle was prevented from flying on a JetBlue airline. Doyle’s Tourette’s caused him to
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]]> The Jarawa are a 400-strong hunter-gatherer tribe living on India’s Andaman Islands. Their ancestors are thought to have been part of the first successful human migrations out of Africa, and arrived on the Andaman Islands up to 55,000 years ago.
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]]> Most people can say they were bullied at one point during school years. But most of us might not be able to claim that among our experiences with bullies, teachers also joined in.
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]]> Goal: Condemn Tennessee gun group for raffling off the same model of assault rifle used by the Newtown shooter.

A Tennessee-based gun group, known as the Tennessee Firearms Association, has announced plans to raffle off a Bushmaster AR-15
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]]> arget: Forest Hills Central High School Principal, Terry Uruquhart

Goal: Condemn Forest Hills principal for refusing to report an alleged rape, and demand he apologize to the victim and her family
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]]> Tell President Obama 10 years is too long! Detainees need to be charged and tried in US federal court or released--and the national disgrace that is Guantánamo closed for good.
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]]> Call on Walmart, H&M, and Gap to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement before the next factory fire or building collapse takes the lives of more garment workers.
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]]> Since April 3, that family has been but a distant memory and today, Dizzel sits alone in her kennel run waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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]]> Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and mother of two, was arrested, unfairly tried and jailed in Iran for her fearless but peaceful defence of women and children - acts deemed to be critical of the government.

This was in September 2010.
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]]> Somayeh Mehri (29) and her daughter Rana Afghanipour (3) give each other a kiss. Since their disfigurement in an acid attack, they say, others don’t like to kiss them.
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]]> The Ontario government and police are investigating a long-term care facility after a hidden video camera captured an elderly woman with dementia being abused by her caregivers.
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]]> For most tomato pickers in the U.S., a bucket brings in 50 cents, a piece rate that has remained virtually unchanged for more than 30 years. Because the rate is set so low, a worker has to pick more than two and a quarter tons of tomatoes per day
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]]> Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.
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]]> Louisiana's racketeering laws would be broadened to include a range of crimes including human trafficking, kidnapping, bigamy and the sale of children under a bill heading to a final vote
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]]> Figures suggest Asian men are disproportionately involved, but law enforcers and those in child protection say it's not so simple
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]]> Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die.
Researchers at Columbia University estimate deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the 2020s, and, in some
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]]> A deadly tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs on Monday, destroying a school and devastating a community.
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]]> A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but Chilean officials said it was not felt on land and discarded the possibility that it might unleash a tsunami.
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]]> The word in the garden is that basil is good to have around. Plants are known to communicate with each other via shade, aromatic chemicals, and physical touch, promoting processes such as growth and defense against disease, as well as attraction of bees
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]]> Here's what researchers know for sure: going on a gluten-free diet if you have an intolerance, such as celiac disease, is beneficial. But what about the rest of us? Is going gluten-free healthier for everybody?
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]]> Rescuers have uncovered the bodies of seven children who drowned in a pool of water under the flattened Plaza Towers Elementary School and up to 24 more students are feared dead after a two mile-wide tornado touched down in a highly
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]]> At least 51 people have been confirmed dead, two elementary schools have been flattened and scores of students could be trapped under the rubble after a two mile-wide tornado touched down in a highly-populated suburb of Oklahoma City in
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]]> Five copper coins found in northern Australia could rewrite the country's history.
The coins are thought to date back as early as the 900s and are believed to have originated in Africa.
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]]> This is the last picture of the two children alleged to have been murdered by their British father following a bitter custody battle.
The boy and girl were caught on CCTV clutching balloons and waiting patiently as
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]]> The loss of life and stunning devastation in Oklahoma City suburbs after a monster tornado ripped through the area are heart-wrenching. But within hours, relief organizations were getting out the message on how to help.
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]]> Horrific video footage of a Syrian rebel commander eating the heart or lung of a dead government fighter has aroused furious international controversy, fuelling an already heated debate over western support for the armed uprising against President Basha
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]]> Goal: Stop attacking women’s rights and health.

Hyper-conservative Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has spent his career telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies
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]]> Raji thinks she was beaten five or six times during the seven months she spent in India working on building sites after being trafficked from her village in mid-western Nepal, lured by promises of a well-paid job as a domestic help. She
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]]> Where the Police are Feared by the Innocent

Imagine you are a woman walking alone in the evening, making your way to a taxi rank or train station to make your way home.

You hear footsteps behind you and as you look back there is a sudden whist
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]]> Target: Hoover High School Principal Don Hulin

Goal: Apologize to high school girl who was beaten and arrested for falling asleep in school

Recently, Ashlynn Avery, a high school girl in Hoover, Alabama was beaten and arrested after falling
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]]> Sister Megan Rice, an 83-year-old nun, has been convicted for her participation in a break-in protest at a nuclear facility in Tennessee, USA last July.

According to a BBC News report, Sister Megan Rice and two other protesters, Michael Walli
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]]> Goal: Demand the Air Force take immediate, severe, punitive action against lieutenant charged with sexual battery.

Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Krusinski, head of the U.S. Air Force’s anti-sexual assault unit was recently arrested and charged with
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]]> A Medford woman and a Woburn man have been arrested on charges of running a large-scale human sex trafficking ring out of several massage parlors in communities north of Boston, law enforcement officials said today.
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]]> The other day I was feeling overwhelmed, depressed, and defeated about the whole GMO thing. There is SO MUCH evidence that GMOs, and the chemicals that are used in concert with them (like Roundup) are destroying our health and
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