Human Rights Campaigns

Nine million refugee children in the world dream of a better future. The UNHCR’s new campaign aims to help them realise their dreams by improving their lives in refugee camps through education and sport.
*ninemillion.org campaign

Peace in the Middle East requires bridges not walls, says War on Want. It’s campaign on the Occupied Palestinian Territories focuses on the devastating effects of the illegal Separation Wall built by Israel. Take action.
* Stop the wall campaign

Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested in May 2003 after the regime’s militia attacked her convoy and killed up to 100 of her supporters. She is still in detention. She isn't allowed to see family or friends. Her phone line is cut and her post is intercepted. Join the global campaign to free Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma.

In China, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others are aiding repression, censorship, and violation of fundamental freedoms. Amnesty International urge you to take action.

Chronically weak and outdated arms controls urgently need strengthening to stop an ever-expanding chain of arms brokers, logistic firms and transporters from fuelling massive human rights abuse around the world.

Children and adolescents in Colombia are asking adults to vote for candidates who have children’s rights on their agenda. Find out more about the campaign.

50 million babies go unregistered every year in the developing world, which maens they are denied healthcare, education, a nationality and protection from abuse. Help put pressure on governments in South Asia and Africa to register children.

The USA’s ‘rendition’ policy has transferred people secretly and illegally to countries known to practise torture, to US detention centres in Guantánamo Bay, Iraq, Afghanistan and ‘black sites’ around the world. There have been hundreds of victims, says Amnesty International, which is campaigning to stop rendition.

Sixteen Jewish campaign groups are urging the Archibishop of Canterbury to support the General Synod’s vote to withdraw its investments in bulldozer manufacturer Caterpillar. A War on Want report shows that the company sells its bulldozers to the Israeli military fully aware that they will be used for the demolition of houses in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

Over 100 survivors from the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster are currently on an 800km march from Bhopal to Delhi. When they reach Delhi, in the last week of March, they hope to meet with the Prime Minister, and present him with a charter of demands. Add your support by signing the Amnesty petition to the Indian government.

Volunteers with a passion for fashion, music and finance should get down to Save the Children shops, as the charity is looking for people who are keen to help vulnerable children around the world.

More than 500 people from around 35 different nations remain held without charge or fair trial at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Amnesty urges the US government to release all detainees, or grant them a full and fair trial.

Petitions to Parliament contributed to Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807... the fight goes on.

The treatment of young asylum-seekers making their way through school or university can be particularly distressing. This campaign appeals to students to take action to encourage the authorities to apply the regulations with more humanitarian concern.

The recent general election plumbed new depths in exploiting public misunderstanding about migrants and asylum-seekers. You can join the "Migrants Deserve Respect" campaign which aims to improve the quality of public debate.

A consortium of civil society organisations is concerned about the ratification of a Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. It will not come into force unless 15 African countries adopt the protocol. This petition can be supported by SMS technology.

There is increasing awareness of the problem of appalling discrimination and violence against gay men and women in Jamaica. Join Amnesty's campaign to put pressure on the authorities in that country.

Rehabilitation of children who have been victims of trafficking is recognised as a vital and demanding task. Unicef is lobbying MPs to establish adequate funding resources.