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Within days, about 900 students from a Christian college in Jakarta could be forcibly evicted from the place where they have been living and studying. Religious minority groups have frequently endured oppression by the Muslim authorities.
Five Tamil students were killed and two others were seriously injured in January 2006 by the Sri Lankan security forces. To date, no one has been brought to justice for these violations. Send a postcard to the Sri Lankan President and urge the Sri Lankan government to provide accountability for human rights violations.
Real health care reform could help bring the U.S. government closer to fulfilling the human right to health care. Yet Congress, and particularly the Senate, continues to treat health care as a market commodity, rather than a public good. The Senate must stop pandering to the insurance industry and instead provide a Medicare-like public plan that is accessible to everyone.
When the women left their homes that May morning in 2006, they never imagined the horrific experience that lay ahead of them. During a police operation in response to protests by activists from a local peasant organization in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, over 45 women were arrested without explanation.
Tell your Representatives and Senators to amend the Stafford Act to bring it in line with the United Nations Guiding Principles for Internally Displaced Persons. Although the IDP Guidelines are not binding, they are based on existing instruments of international human rights and humanitarian law and should be recognized by the U.S. government as the appropriate framework for helping internally displaced persons within its borders. Download the action Urge Congress to amend the Stafford Act in PDF format | Download the action Urge Congress to amend the Stafford Act in RTF format
Children can and do commit terrible crimes, however, when they do, they should be held accountable in a manner that reflects both their culpability and their special capacity for rehabilitation.
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