Education Emergency

Pakistan is suffering an education emergency, with at least 25 million children denied their constitutional right to an education.
Few of those children who do go to school receive the quality education they need to prosper in the modern world. The economic impact of the emergency is catastrophic – billions of rupees a year – while the human cost is much greater.
Let’s join together to force Pakistan’s leaders to finally get serious about providing every child with a decent school and a committed teacher. Sign our petition to make ending the education emergency the country’s no 1 priority.
3 Reasons for signing this petition
• Because the cost of not educating Pakistan is the equivalent of one flood per year.
• Because we have the money. 26 countries are poorer than Pakistan but are able to send more children to school.
• Because a country cannot thrive in the modern world without educating its children. It is a fundamental right under our constitution.
To Pakistan’s Prime Minister and Chief Ministers
We call on you to make education your number one priority in 2011 – the Year of Education – and to set out plans for giving every child their constitutional right to education. At a time of fiscal crisis, we ask you protect education budgets and to explain how, and when, they can be increased to at least 4% of GDP.
http://educationemergency.com.pk/
Education is the right of every kid. Please sign this petition. It won’t even take a minute. Thank you so much!

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Those Who Were Burned Alive

One month ago, a tragic and preventable fire claimed the lives of 28 factory workers in Bangladesh while making clothes for luxury American brands. Gap, Calvin Klein & Tommy Hilfiger are a few companies that are taking the first steps toward providing just compensation for the families of those killed and instituting an urgent program of factory inspections. But Abercrombie & Fitch, Target, JC Penney, Jansport, North Face, OshKosh B’Gosh and the other clothing brands are still dragging their feet. 


We need to put pressure on these companies to begin an immediate inspection of their factories to prevent any more fatalities. The workers are generally young, poor and females. On December 14, more than two dozen of them were burned alive when an easily preventable fire broke out in the unsafe, multi-story sweatshop they were working in. The tragedy began when a fire broke out on the ninth and 10th floors of the multi-story "That's It Sportswear" clothing factory just north the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. With a number of the exits blocked, 28 workers were killed: most burned to death, some trampled to death, some killed by suffocation and others jumped from the flames to their death. Several dozen more suffered severe burns.


Please take action and sign the following petition so that big companies make sure this does not happen again to many other hardworking people who merely go to their factories for their bread and butter.


Petition For Those Who Were Burned Alive

Source: Change.Org

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Release Ai Weiwei Chinese Government

Ai Weiwei






Ai Weiwei's famous work - Bird's Nest

Ai Weiwei is the most famous artist in China, best known for his iconic "Bird's Nest" stadium that was the focal point of the Beijing Olympics.

Ai has always pushed the envelope, both with his internationally-acclaimed art and with his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government.

But these past weeks have brought Beijing's harshest crackdown on dissidents in more than a decade. And on April 3rd, government agents arrested Ai at the Beijing airport and seized papers and computers from his studio.

We don't know where Ai is now. The Chinese government is holding him on flimsy charges of "economic crimes" -- an allegation often used to silence dissenters.

Twelve leading figures in the international arts world, including the directors of the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, and Tate Museum, have started a petition on Change.org demanding that the Chinese government free Ai Weiwei.

The regime in Beijing has proven largely resistant to pressure from foreign governments. But they've made a huge push to raise China's profile in the arts -- the government just finished building the world's largest art museum. Widespread condemnation, led by the arts community, may be our best chance to save his life.

Please sign the petition to free Ai Weiwei as soon as possible:

http://www.change.org/petitions/call-for-the-release-of-ai-weiwei?alert_id=ZntTBqdKpo_TZyYBXEytZ&me=aa

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War Against Corrective Rape Is Going Strong!

A small group of lesbian activists from the poverty-stricken townships of Cape Town walked into South African parliament on Monday and convinced their government to finally start fighting the country’s decades-old scourge of "corrective rape" -- where men rape lesbian women to "turn" them straight. .

Late last year, these activists called on the world to help them pressure their leaders to take action on corrective rape. People from over 163 countries signed up petitions to help them out.

Three and a half months later, they succeeded. Teaming up with 23 major South African organizations, they got some of the most powerful officials in the country to agree to bring together various government arms and civil society groups to develop and implement a national action plan to combat corrective rape.

The ministry officials asked for details of specific cases in need of immediate attention, committed to a series of meetings beginning in six weeks, and promised to present concrete proposals to prevent corrective rape by the next meeting.

The petitions by people from all over the world led to the international press coverage of the campaign, taking corrective rape from an unspoken epidemic to a prominent international issue. In the last two weeks alone, the campaign against corrective rape has been covered by Time Magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, MSNBC, Dan Rather, Forbes, Yahoo! News, Salon, and dozens of global outlets from Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Spain, and even a Finnish tabloid.

It’s an astounding victory, far beyond what we ever could have imagined when we set out late last year. Please sign up the following petition to continue building up pressure on the government against corrective rape.

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