Appeals & Urgent Actions
Take Action: Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary: Fire Up, Sign Up!
Celebrate Human Rights Day and the 60th anniversary of the UDHR. Stand up with people all over the world who want to make human rights a reality for everyone.
Read more...Take Action: Turkey urged to respect LGBT people's right to freedom of association
November 18, 2008
Turkish Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender solidarity organisation Lambda Istanbul's appeal against the closure of their association was to be considered at the Supreme Court of Appeals in Ankara on Tuesday 25 November, 2008.
Call for Participation/Contributions: Centre for Women's Studies, Croatia: Postgraduate Course: "Feminisms in Transnational Perspective: Spirituality, religiosity and secular lives."
May 25-29, 2009
Dubrovnik, Croatia
This year the organizers are looking for papers and presentations that address the ways in which we feminists and scholars reflect on the significance of spirituality, religiosity and secular thinking in our lives.
Take Action: Women's Learning Partnership: Civil Society Crackdown in Nicaragua
October 22, 2008
WLP colleagues from the Autonomous Women’s Movement (MAM) in Nicaragua have called our attention to the government’s raid and seizure of documents and computers from their offices on October 10th.The raid of MAM’s offices as well as the Centre for Investigation and Communication (CINCO) offices are another step of President Daniel Ortega’s government's campaign against civil society organizations, particularly feminists, who have been outspoken critics of his government.
Read more...Urgent Action: The Observatory: Iran: Release on bail/Judicial Proceedings
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Iran.
Read more...WLUML: Call for Action: Somalia: Stoning to death of a 13-year old girl
November 04, 2008
13-year-old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was killed on Monday, 27 October 2008, by a group of 50 men who stoned her to death in a stadium in the southern port of Kismayu, Somalia in front of around 1,000 spectators.
Read more...Amnesty International: Take Action: Jordan - protect the rights of women domestic migrant workers
October 28, 2008
Tens of thousands of women migrant domestic workers in Jordan face isolation, exploitation and abuse, with little or no protection from the state.
Read more...WLP Urgent Alert: One Million Signatures Campaign Members Sussan Tahmasebi and Parastoo Alahyaari’s Homes Searched, Properties Seized; Tahmasebi Banned from Travel
October 27, 2008
Yesterday [October 26, 2008] security officials at Imam Khomeini Airport confiscated the passport of Sussan Tahmasebi, women’s rights defender and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, preventing her from travel. Later in the day her house was searched and property seized including books, CDs, and a laptop.
Read more...Take Action: Amnesty International: Demand proper protection of womens’ rights in Mexico
October 20, 2008
One in four women in Mexico has suffered physical, and sometimes sexual, violence at the hands of their partner. Thousands are put at risk of repeated abuse because weak or ineffective protection measures fail to ensure their safety.
Read more...Take Action: Urgent Solidarity Needed with women in Nicaragua
October 12, 2008
The attacks promoted by the Nicaraguan government under Daniel Ortega against the defenders of women’s human rights in this country have not been limited to legal proceeding against them, but are being expressed in ongoing persecution and direct threats against their lives and the lives of their families.
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