Full Coverage: Activism

29.07.2005 Le 27 juin, MSF a ouvert à Aguié son cinquième centre de nutrition thérapeutique au Niger, d'une capacité de 150 lits d'hospitalisation. Mais quinze jours après l'ouverture, le centre affiche déjà complet. Pour faire face à l'afflux d'enfants souffrant de malnutrition grave, il faut doubler le nombre de lits.

29.07.2005 On August 1-4, a fast and vigil will be held outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. for an end to the genocide in Darfur. Africa Action asks you to show your support and get involved.

28.07.2005 The son of a prominent Pakistani human rights activist, himself a committed peace activist, was tortured and killed in November. The investigation into his death is stalled, and human rights advocates have launched a letter-writing campaign to ensure justice is done and the impunity and intimidation is brought to an end.

27.07.2005 The G8 should be put under pressure until the messages on trade, aid and debt are finally heeded, says CAFOD.

26.07.2005 Ce que proposent les journées Alternatives 2005 : Créer des espaces pour débattre des luttes et des solidarités qui nous animent, en démontrant comment chacune de ces batailles, aussi locale soit-elle, s’inscrit dans une résistance globale pour le bien commun. Parce qu’en renforçant notre mouvement social ici, en préparant nos batailles et en consolidant nos solidarités au Québec et au Canada, c’est à un mouvement global que nous contribuons.

26.07.2005 August 6 and 9, 2005 mark the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Tens of thousands of people at four U.S. nuclear weapons sites will call for an end to the development and production of nuclear bombs. Find out how you can join them.

26.07.2005 The “Gërmia 2005” Coalition, which includes ten organizations, the Kosovo
Green Party and the Association of Pensioners, started a procedure with the Supreme Court of Kosovo against the Parliament and Pristina Municipal Assembly.

26.07.2005 The Court of First Jurisdiction “Skopje 2” decided that the “Resist, Say No” civic action can join the legal team of the subscribers involved in litigations with Macedonia Telecommunications Ltd.

25.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 25 (OneWorld) - Congress has done little to protect lives in Darfur in the year since it declared, unanimously, that mass killings there amounted to genocide, a leading U.S.-based advocacy group has charged amid an upsurge in violence in the western Sudanese region.

25.07.2005 Fifteen years ago, after discovering carcinogenic solvents in their drinking water, Wisconsin citizens began demanding that nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant--which was polluting the regionÂ’s water, land, and air--be closed. Today, the clean up continues and the volunteers remain a steady voice for human health.

22.07.2005 Le Groupe d'observation de la Tunisie organisé par l'IFEX vient d'inaugurer un nouveau site web qui passe en revue de manière détaillée la situation de la libre expression dans ce pays et qui met le gouvernement au défi de cesser de bloquer l'Internet pendant la période précédant la tenue, en novembre 2005, du Sommet mondial de la société de l'information (SMIS).

22.07.2005 Ce que proposent les journées Alternatives 2005 : Créer des espaces pour débattre des luttes et des solidarités qui nous animent, en démontrant comment chacune de ces batailles, aussi locale soit-elle, s’inscrit dans une résistance globale pour le bien commun. Parce qu’en renforçant notre mouvement social ici, en préparant nos batailles et en consolidant nos solidarités au Québec et au Canada, c’est à un mouvement global que nous contribuons.

22.07.2005 The FBI has been working hard, gathering files on potential threats to the President under the administration's anti-terrorism laws. But the files weren't all on Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. It has come to light that Greenpeace, the American Civil Liberties Union and a range of domestic critics of George Bush may be the new "axis of evil".

22.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 22 (OneWorld) - Activists seeking to impeach President George W. Bush have planned 300-plus events nationwide Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a top-level meeting of British officials that they say proves the White House manipulated intelligence and lied to Congress to justify its war against Iraq.

22.07.2005 Speaking Tuesday afternoon at the first civil society conference on conflict prevention at the U.N., Timor-Leste President Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao relayed examples of his country's peacebuilding experiences after years of conflict, and pointed out that a government's political will to create policy change is key to conflict prevention.

22.07.2005 To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9th, the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) will hold "Nuclear Weapons Days of Action" across the country. Sign up for a local event or host your own.

22.07.2005 While the international community encourages Haiti to hold elections by the end of 2005, Haitian activists argue elections would be meaningless and enjoy little participation. Instead, organizers are trying to rebuild the popular movement, believing the current chaos can only be stopped if Haiti's poor majority mobilizes, reports the Haiti Support Group's Charles Arthur.

21.07.2005 Speed debating, a new take on speed dating, is a simple and innovative way to have fun and swap ideas about how to fix global or local problems, says the Millennium Campaign, asking you to hold these social empowerment events and let them know of projects you have decided to work on. The best projects will be posted on the Millennium Campaign website.

21.07.2005 Economic boycotts have helped bring down South Africa's apartheid regime and discourage French nuclear testing in Polynesia. How viable would an economic boycott of U.S. products be in loosening America's military, economic, political, and cultural stranglehold on the world? Johan Galtung of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research explores the idea.

19.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 19 (OneWorld) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has amassed at least 3,500 pages of internal documents from political protest groups in what the targets say amounts to political surveillance of some of President George W. Bush's leading critics.