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Kenya Electoral Crisis
From MADRE (www.madre.org): Outrage in Kenya has exploded into violence and thousands of women and their families are caught in the crisis. You can help!
Hundreds of people have been killed and more than a quarter of a million people have fled their homes since violence erupted across Kenya after last month's rigged presidential election.
Thousands of uprooted families are subsisting in make-shift camps without sufficient food, medical care, or safe drinking water. Incidents of malaria are on the rise, especially among children, as people crowd around stagnant water pools in areas that lack sanitation.
Families who remained in their homes also face a humanitarian emergency. Many of the wounded have no access to medical care. Some towns have been totally cut off from essential supplies and markets. Children are going hungry because their parents cannot reach their jobs or collect their wages.
In the countryside, mothers are rationing food and drinking water among their children because venturing into the bush to collect water or firewood for cooking is simply too dangerous. In the women-led village of Umoja, where MADRE works, economic life has ground to a halt because the tourist trade on which the women depend is completely suspended.
Help provide food, medicine, and other basic necessities so that women and thier families in Kenya can survive this crisis and begin to rebuild. Please contribute to MADRE's Emergency and Disaster Relief Fund. With your help, MADRE can respond to this emergency.
Call for Urgent Resolution
http://www.petitiononline.com/kenya08/petition.html
Updates
http://www.pambazuka.org/actionalerts/index.php
Press Releases
Kenya: YWCA Calls for Peace With Justice and Protection of Women's Rights |
Calls to Action
- International Women Leaders Global Security Summit and Call to Action: The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in partnership with The White House Project, the Council of Women World Leaders and the Women Leaders Intercultural Forum convened the International Women Leaders Global Security Summit from November 15-17, 2007 in New York City, New York. The Summit brought together women governmental and civil society leaders, e.g. Mary Robinson, former President, Ireland; Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister, Canada; and Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Fomer President, Latvia. Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, CWGL, was among those who attended. Participants focused on issues such as global security, climate change, terrorism, economic insecurity, and humanitarian intervention and peace building.
During the Summit a Call To Action was formulated, which can be signed by others. Please click here to read more about the The International Women Leaders Global Security Summit and the Call to Action.
- Open letter asking for solidarity from Nicaraguan women activists: "We regret to inform you that in Nicaragua, a new action that bears witness to the increased presence of fundamentalists attacking feminists for defending the human rights of women is taking place..." Click here to read letter
- Nairobi Declaration on Women's and Girls' Rights to Remedy and Reparation, Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations http://www.womensrightscoalition.org/site/reparation/signature_en.php
- Defending Women Defending
Rights, International
Women Human Rights Defenders Campaign http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org
- Global
Call for Action Against Poverty http://www.whiteband.org
- 34 Million Friends of the UN Population Fund http://www.34millionfriends.org
- Women's Call for Peace, CODEPINK http://www.womensaynotowar.org
- Women for Wik - Monitoring the Federal Action in the Northern Territory (Australia) http://www.womenforwik.org
Action Alerts
Other Activities/Campaigns
- Global Campaign to "Stop Stoning and Killing Women," Women Living Under Muslim Laws http://wluml.org
- Claiming Equal Citizenship: The Campaign for Arab Women’s Right to Nationality, Women's Learning Partnership http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/
-
Ann Coulter Does Not Speak for Me campaign, Center for the Advancement of Women http://action.advancewomen.org/annSays.html
- How
to Make a Complaint to the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies Online
- A FREE CONFIDENTIAL ONLINE SERVICE FOR
VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS - http://www.bayefsky.com/unts/index.html
- Go
Vote, Go Run, Go Lead, Go Girl, an initiative of the White House
Project http://www.voterunlead.org
- A
Call to Action: Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan, Feminist
Majority Foundation http://www.feminist.org/afghan
- "See Change" campaign: Change the Holy See's status
at the United Nations, Catholics for a Free Choice http://www.seechange.org
- Condoms4Life
campaign,
Catholics for a Free Choice http://www.condoms4life.org
- Global
Campaign Against Torture, Amnesty International http://www.stoptorture.org
- Go
M.A.D.: Go M.A.D. works to connect volunteers with social projects
around the world http://www.go-mad.org
- Lutheran Volunteer Corps: LVC is a year-long service program for people 21 and over seeking to unite faith, social justice, community living, and simplicity. Volunteers are matched with non-profit organizations in ten metropolitan areas across the United States. They work full-time in various positions ranging from direct social services, to political advocacy, community organizing, education, and activism while living in intentional community http://lutheranvolunteercorps.org/
- Million4roe.com:
Join one million voices in urging Senate leaders to filibuster
anti-choice Supreme Court nominees, and tell Washington we won't
go back, Feminist Majority Foundation http://www.million4roe.com
- nGoAbroad: nGoAbroad is a clearinghouse and referral service that custom-fits peoples' skills, interests and goals with international humanitarian needs, with an emphasis on women's needs http://www.ngoabroad.com
- Online
Volunteering Service:
The Online Volunteering (OV) service, managed by the United Nations
Volunteers (UNV) programme, connects online volunteers with non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), UN organizations and academic institutions
all over the world. Online volunteers translate documents, edit
and prepare proposals & press releases, research topics and
gather data, create web pages,
brochures and newsletters, offer professional expertise and advice,
manage other online volunteers, and more... http://www.onlinevolunteering.org
- Protest
the killings of women in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico: http://www.lourdesportillo.com/senoritaextraviada/index.html
- World
Volunteer Web: The WorldVolunteerWeb.org supports the volunteer
community by providing a global one-stop-shop for information,
resources, and organizations linked to volunteerism http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org
- Women's
International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery
(December 8-12, 2000), Tokyo, Japan http://www1.jca.apc.org/vaww-net-japan/english
Summary of Findings available at http://home.att.ne.jp/star/tribunal
- World
March of Women in the Year 2000 http://www.marchemondiale.org
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