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Urge Hillary Clinton to End Child Trafficking - The Petition Site
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: usa, child, children, humans, society, politics, women, violence, safety, clinton )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
magine that you are a child ripped away from your family and sold into a lifetime of slavery or prostitution. This horror story is a reality for 1.2 million girls and boys who were kidnapped and solid into slavery or prostitution this year. And the roc
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Keep Health Reform Moving Forward!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: healthcare, safety, treatment, children, government, congress, obama )

Suzybell
- 110 days ago - change.org
All three House committees have passed health reform bills. The Senate Health committee has passed its bill, and the Senate Finance panel is working hard on developing its plan. Let's use this August recess in Washington to make sure members know we want
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Sign Petition: Include The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Your Passport
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: world, humanrights, freedoms, government, UnitedNations, americans, passports, universal, declaration, human, rights, protection, men, women, children, families, torture, slavery, stoning, waterboarding, flogging, beating, FGM, honour, killings )

Tom
- 118 days ago - humanrightsactioncenter.org
Less than 5% of the world knows of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights existence. Because passports are the official representation of government, if the declaration is in all passports, it becomes an official documentation of the world.
19 comments
Sign Petition: Reverse Arnold's CA Budget Cuts To Battered Women and Children's Health Care!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, schwartzenegger, bully, california, budget, cuts, domestic, violence, women, children, healthcare, education, HIV, AIDS, testing, prevention, elderly, disabled, blind, sick )

Tom
- 123 days ago - act.credoaction.com
When Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the CA budget, he used his line-item veto power to slash millions of dollars of funding for children's health care services, HIV/AIDS testing and prevention, domestic violence shelters and many other core programs.
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Sign Petition: Demand U.S. Government Ratify U.N. Treaties to End Human Trafficking and Slavery
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: world, violence, UnitedNations, politics, women, children, human, rights, freedom, europe, africa, asia, middle-east, america, slavery, discrimination, society, culture )

Tom
- 166 days ago - humantrafficking.change.org
Although The Convention on the Rights of the Child and The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women were signed by Secretary Albright in 1995, The U.S. remains the only Western Country to have not ratified these treaties.
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Audio Slideshow: Zimbabwe's Children
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Zimbabwe Government, children, abuse, sexual abuse, orphans, corruption, crime, politics )

Dee
- 177 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Harare, Robert Ndlovu, has told the BBC that there are now at least a million orphans in Zimbabwe - with many facing sexual and physical abuse from their extended families.
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Zimbabwe's Children 'Put at Risk'
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Zimbabwe government, children, orphans, funding, dishonesty, corruption, politics, ethics )

Dee
- 178 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Some governments around the world are putting politics before the lives of Zimbabwe's children, British charity Save the Children UK told the BBC.
1 comment
Sign Petition: Amend CAPTA to Better Protect At-Risk Children
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: children, child, abuse, neglect, CAPTA, society, safety, violence, law, government, humans, family, rights, crime, culture, americans )

Tom
- 193 days ago - change.org
The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) (42 U.S.C.A.A. §5106g) serves as a national set of minimum requirements for, among other things, the definition of what constitutes abuse and neglect upon children.
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Poor Would Be Hard Hit By Proposed California Budget Cuts
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: society, culture, poor, medical, ssi, disability, mental, health, cuts, budget, california, Schwarzenegger, americans, family, children, women, rights, government, healthcare, illness, risks, socialsecurity )

Tom
- 193 days ago - latimes.com
Elimination of health and welfare programs would come at a steep price. Tens of thousands of families and children would be stripped of temporary financial help and health assistance, and the state would lose a huge pool of federal money.
6 comments
State of Paralysis By PAUL KRUGMAN
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: americans, usa, government, democrats, republicans, healthcare, housing, socialsecurity, children, risks, society, culture, rights, education, freedoms, ethics, corruption, business, finance, politics, money, economy, dishonesty, lies )

Tom
- 193 days ago - nytimes.com
California shouldn't be in fiscal crisis on the verge of cutting essential public services and denying health coverage to almost a million children. But it is. You have to wonder if it's political paralysis foreshadows the future of the nation as a whole.
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TAKE ACTION---Ask Congress to Improve the Lives of Children Worldwide
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: congress, healthcare, government, CHILDREN, americans )

Cal
- 211 days ago - change.org
Despite significant progress in children's health over the past few decades, 25,000 children under five years old still die from mostly preventable causes each day. With the current global financial crisis, vulnerable newborns and young children face gre
6 comments
Sign Petition: Fund the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: usa, americans, government, obama, society, culture, children, education, disabilities, schools, rights )

Tom
- 215 days ago - change.org
Fully funding IDEA will provide students with disabilities the public education they have a right to, and school districts will be able to provide services without cutting into their general education budgets. Tell President Obama to fully fund IDEA.
23 comments
Children as Unlamented Victims of Bush's War Crimes
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: usa, americans, government, war, bush, cheney, Abu Ghraib, torture, children, killed, wounded, prisoners, cover-up, crime, lies, Iraq, Afghanistan, violence, rights, military, freedoms, humanrights, abuse )

Tom
- 215 days ago - gather.com
The best kept secret of Bush's war crimes is that thousands of children were imprisoned, tortured, and denied rights under the Geneva Conventions. Yet both Congress and the media fail to identify the very existence of child prisoners as a war crime.
13 comments
Child Protective Services & the Business of 'Legalized Kidnapping'
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: corruption, children, abuse, politics, society, manipulation, ethics, government, dishonesty, cover-up, constitution )

Raffi
- 216 days ago - dingo.care2.com
DENVER - The suffering endured by Africans who were kidnapped from their native land and brought to America as slaves is sometimes referred to as the Black holocaust, which some say ended years ago but, that is not the case according to parents who
15 comments
Teacher Elvira Sacco Gets Detention for Using N-Word
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, americans, constitution, corruption, cover-up, crime, dishonesty, ethics, freedoms, government, healthcare, lies, news, politics, media, SupremeCourt, usa, terrorism, children, isms, racism, bigotry, freedoms, violations of civil rights )

CA
- 217 days ago - nydailynews.com
A Park Slope middle school teacher used a racial slur while scolding unruly students, a Department of Education investigation has found.
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