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The first step in solving any problem is to first gain knowledge about that problem. Find out what’s going on in your community and around the world. Take a stand, and make a difference. Get active! Participate in all forms of government and let your voice be heard. There are thousands of human rights organizations everywhere that are devoted to promoting global awareness for the atrocities unfolding around the world. Talk to your friends, co-workers, and neighbors about apartheid and educate them about it. Just doing this can make a difference and demonstrates activism. Only by educating, acknowledging, and taking a stand, can we truly seek to bring about change in today’s society and around the world.

You should involve your self in other issues affecting human rights as well. Ranging from the genocide taking place in Darfur right now, to environmental concerns of global warming, combating devastating illnesses like HIV/AIDS, to helping innocent people living in poverty, there are many, many concerns and issues that need attention. If you look closely you may find that right in your very own community many of these issues may exist. Participate in your church out reach group, or contact your local humane associations to lend a helping hand.

Don't Let History Repeat Itself!
//media type="youtube" key="0ZLQzqmqeqI" Created by a group of students attending the University of Central Florida; a touching brief depiction of atrocities in history that have gone ignored, and resulted in the deaths and calamities of thousands of innocent people. This is what happens when nothing is done, and history goes wrong.//

The following organizations are devoted to combating human rights violations, as well as promoting activism and change.

[|Fourth World Documentation Project] The Fourth World Documentation Project, part of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, follows human rights and other issues involving indigenous people all over the world.

[|Amnesty International] Nobel Prize-winning activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.

[|The Global Democracy Network] The Global Democracy Network (GDN) is operated by the United States' Congressional Human Rights Foundation in order to provide the Internet community with information related to human rights and democracy.

[|Human Rights Watch] Human Rights Watch, founded in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, is a coalition formed by a number of independent regional human rights groups. The Human Rights Watch gopher contains information about Human Rights Watch itself and extensive information about human rights conditions sorted by country and region.

[|Sierra Club] With more than 750,000 members, and inspired by nature, the Sierra Club works to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential environmental organization.

[|United Nations] The purposes of the United Nations, as set forth in the Charter, are to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations; to cooperate in solving international economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems and in promoting respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in attaining these ends.