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Urge Facebook to remove the page "Dead Baby Jokes" from its website !

It would appear that despite numerous attempts by concerned parties , Facebook seems to be nonchalant about the degree of… read more

Release The Panchen Lama - 15 Years of Silence and Neglect

Abducted aged 6 and detained for 15 years. He is still the youngest political prisoner in the world.

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Petition in Support of the Ukrainian Flag and in opposition to the use of the oppressive hammer and sickle flag in Ukraine

Whereas the Ukrainian law on mandatory use of the red flag during Victory Day celebrations on May 9 is a… read more

Islamic Republic of Iran Must Free Hossein Ronaghi Maleki and Navid Khanjani and STOP Persecuting Earthquake Relief Workers!

UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 29, 2012 A further number of relief workers who were arrested while helping victims of the recent earthquake… read more

Induct Jan & Dean in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Jan and Dean were a Rock and Roll duo, popular from the late 1950's through the mid 1960's. Jan Berry… read more

Save Claudio Bravo’ famous Arab horses.

In Taroudant, in the foothills of the high Atlas in Morocco some 150 km from Jarjeer Mule and Donkey Refuge,… read more

Google must Retain the name "Persian Gulf"

Google has changed the name of the Persian Gulf to Arabic Gulf. This is wrong. Google must Retain the name… read more

No to the IRB’s Experimental Law variations

The International Rugby Board Council announced on 1st May 2008 that it had approved a global trial of Experimental Law… read more

Save Dead Famous!

Living tv produced a fantastic ghost show called Dead famous staring Tv presenter Gail porter & sensitive Chris Flemming. This… read more

End all kinds of Violence Against Women

平等機會婦女聯席 終止對女性的一切暴力行為──就印度女性受性暴力事件聯署聲明 印度女性長期處於受壓迫的位置，針對女性的性暴力從未止息。十二月二十九日清晨，新德里巴士輪姦案的二十三歲女大學生因多個器官衰竭延醫不治。除此，印度接連番爆出多宗駭人的針對女性的嚴重暴力事件，包括少女受到輪姦後報警，竟受到負責調查的督察性侵犯、以及以「榮譽」之名殺害有婚外情的女性等等，印度民眾不理宵禁令上街舉行反性暴力示威，要求政府正視性暴力的問題。 根據印度官方數字，去年共有228650宗針對女性的暴力罪行，平均每二十二分鐘就有一名女性被強暴，然而有不少女性因怯於社會壓力而對暴力啞忍，更有女性在報警後受到更沉重的壓力和進一步的傷害。印度女性於社會上受到不同形式的暴力對待，除了數之不盡的性暴力事件外，她們會因嫁妝不足而受到夫家虐待、家庭地位低落屢受丈夫毆打、殉葬制度（sati）令不少寡婦被活活燒死，其嚴重及普遍程度致使每六小時就有一名印度婦女因家庭暴力而喪命。印度警方不但沒有正視這些暴力事件，反而縱然警方侵犯及傷害受害女性，更打壓關注事件及參與示威的群眾。而女性反而成為被怪責的對象，她們的行為及衣著被指責，女性的自主被限制。 聯合國《消除暴力對待婦女宣言》中指出，國家必須「施行審慎評鑑(due diligence)以防止、調查及按國家立法懲處暴力對待婦女的行為，無論是國家或私人干犯均需一視同仁」。意指國家必須確保人權法所列明的權利在現實生活中得到實踐，一旦權利受到侵犯，國家需要負起挽救及補償的責任。可惜，從諸種案例中均可見到，印度政府不旦沒有負起改變性別不平等的情況，更遲遲未肯制定有效的政策保護女性免受暴力侵犯，甚至意圖將防衛責任推諉女性，要求女性學習自衛術以減低性罪行的發生。 Hong Kong Women’s Coalition on Equal Opportunities End all kinds of Violence Against Women---Joint… read more

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