'05 Get Involved

12/16/2005 Earlier this year a debt cancellation package was agreed for 18 of the world's most impoverished countries, but now the IMF has announced a final test must be passed by six of them to qualify for the January write-off. Africa Action wants you to join them this week in telling the IMF that more delays cost more lives!

12/07/2005 400,00 people have died in Darfur since the genocide began, yet the Bush Administration has failed to take the action necessary to protect the people, says Africa Action. Join them Thursday for a rally outside the State Department, and help make it clear that the U.S. has a moral obligation to stop the genocide in Darfur.

12/06/2005 Write a holiday card to a prisoner of conscience or send a letter to the Guatemalan government on behalf of a women's organization being harassed for its work with rape victims. Last year, Amnesty supporters in over thirty countries participated in the annual Write-a-Thon. Organize your own event this year or find one to attend near you.

12/06/2005 A petition calling for the arrest of the two men said to have orchestrated the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnia war was originally drafted in July for the tenth anniversary of the horrific event. Mark the tenth anniversary of the Dayton Accords, which ended the war, by adding your name to the nearly 10,000 signatures already on the petition.

12/05/2005 The decisions made at next week's World Trade Organization meeting will impact everybody's life and could potentially lift millions of people in developing countries out of poverty. Join the largest anti-poverty campaign in history as they tell world leaders to deliver a fair deal for the whole world.

12/02/2005 The United States must stand--without exception--for the principle of human decency and against the use of torture, says Amnesty International. With two key bills under consideration right now, they're asking citizens to call their congresspeople and remind them of that.