Global+Campaigns

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=**Speak Truth To Power**=

It is important that we all lend a helping hand in shaping our society and protecting human rights around the globe. The fight to end apartheid, and the elements associated with it require constant and persist activism and awareness. Equally so are other global concerns and atrocities that impact and violate human rights.

The following 21st Century Human Rights campaigns were identified by Amnesty International.

[|Stop Torture] The ban on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment – the most universally accepted of human rights – is being undermined. In the "war on terror", governments are not only using torture and ill-treatment, they are making the case that this is justifiable and necessary.

[|The Death Penalty] Defined by many as cruel, and praised by others as a tool of justice. Human rights activist argue that the death penalty violates the right to life. According to Amnesty International, tt is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent and has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments.

[|Poverty and Human Rights] Activist argue that everyone around the globe, regardless of citizenship, class satus, or financial wealth, has the right to live in peace and dignity. This also includes the right to access of food, shelter, health, water, education, sanitation, etc.

[|Economic Globalization and Human Rights] Amnesty International recognizes that economic agents such as companies or international financial institutions, are accountable for the human rights impact of their activities.

[|Violance Against Women] Women persistently endure the hardship of discrimination and violence at the hands of not only ruthless individuals, but as many around the globe can attest, also at the hands of the government, community, and family.

[|Child Soldiers] As outlined by Amnesty International, worldwide, more than half a million children have been recruited into government armed forces, paramilitaries, civil militia and a wide variety of non-state armed groups in more than 85 countries.

[|International Justice] In the twentieth century alone, we have beared witness to history gone wrong. Millions of innocent people, men, women, and children, were victims of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, extrajudicial executions and other inhumane acts. These crimes were committed both in times of war and peace.