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"Show your support of trade agreements that assure job security and decent livelihoods, and take a stand against the NAFTA model that displaces millions from their homes and jobs and furthers environmental destruction," urges a group advocating fairer globalization.

Anti-pesticide activists are asking for support in their efforts to secure a U.S. Food and Drug Administration ban on lindane, a toxic, bioaccumulative pesticide still allowed in shampoos and lotions used on children.

Concerned Americans are adding their voices to a new campaign urging presidential candidates to not only address climate change, but to provide specifics -- including how they plan to help developing nations cope with human-caused climate change.

As 2008 marks the 60-year anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a group of seasoned humanitarian activists known as The Elders are hoping to collect one billion signatures from across the world, expanding the past precedent that only governments should sign the Universal Declaration.
From: The Elders

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