Ask your Senators to Support the Sudan Divestment Authorization Act!

VIDEOS ABOUT THE GENOCIDE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z63Ku0PYiKM

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The Sudan Divestment Authorization Act (Senate Bill 831), introduced on March 8, provides federal protection for states that divest from foreign companies funding the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
This bill comes at a crucial moment when the government of Sudan has refused to allow an expansion of the peacekeeping mission and the violence has spread to eastern Chad and the Central African Republic. It is clear that the United States must increase its pressure on the government of Sudan to end the genocide.
Ask your senators to co-sponsor the Sudan Divestment Authorization Act!
What to do:
Call 1-800-GENOCIDE (1-800-436-6243)
Enter in your five-digit zip code
Choose to be connected to your senator’s office
What to say — talking points:
Tell your senator that you are a constituent concerned about the genocide in Darfur; and
Ask your senator to co-sponsor S. 831, the Sudan Divestment Authorization Act.

More information on targeted Sudan divestment can be found at the website of the Sudan Divestment Task Force, a project of the Genocide Intervention Network.

John Prendergast on Darfur at ENOUGH! Project Launch Event:
http://www.chbn.com/Clip.aspx?key=67A8CC0A4A242659

ENOUGH
A new non-profit bringing people together through a comprehensive approach to ending incidents of genocide and mass atrocities.
http://www.enoughproject.org/

STAND
A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition is an umbrella organization of over 600 high school and college chapters dedicated to putting an end to genocide.
http://www.standnow.org/

Help Free Human Rights Activist Chen Guangcheng

Blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, 36 years old, is currently serving an unmerited prison sentence of four years and three months after grossly unjust trials. He was sentenced for damaging property and blocking traffic, after he brought a class-action lawsuit against the local authorities in Linyi, Shandong province, for implementing a campaign of forced abortions and sterilizations, which allegedly affected thousands of local women. Human rights advocates, including myself, believe Chen’s sentence is a politically motivated effort to prevent him from pursuing his peaceful human rights activities. Hence, we strongly advocate for his immediate and unconditional release from prison.

Catherine Baber, Deputy Asia Pacific Director at Amnesty International stated: "We condemn utterly the sentence imposed on Chen Guangcheng and consider him a prisoner of conscience. Chen has been imprisoned solely because of his peaceful defence of human rights and he should be released immediately."

"The charges against Chen were politically motivated and the trial was grossly unfair from start to finish. Chen's lawyers were obstructed at every step of the way, from collecting evidence to representing him in court. By some accounts the trial lasted only two hours; and the

courtroom was filled with official representatives preventing members of the public and most of Chen's relatives attending."

Chen was initially convicted in August 2006 during a swift two hour trial. Since his conviction, his defense attorney, supporters and even his family, have been subjected to harassment, beatings, and intimidation. He appealed his sentence, and to everyone’s astonishment the appeal court ordered a retrial. However, the retrial was unsuccessful because the appeal court refused to consider new evidence from key witnesses.

Chinese activists have expressed that the lengthy sentence reflected that officials are cracking down on human rights advocates who include a growing number of lawyers, academics and dissidents trying to expand citizens’ freedoms through litigation and internet campaigns for legal reform.

According to Chen’s wife, Yuan Weijing, Chen hasn’t eaten well for the past few months and has not received a decent meal since his transfer to the Linyi Prison. Chen also expressed that the prison applies a cruel system: where certain prisoners are empowered to governing other prisoners. Chen’s wife thinks he is being mistreated in prison and we are all very worried about his well-being. Time is of the essence, we most join together to advocate for his immediate release. Also we most continue to build awareness about the illegal practice of forced abortions and sterilizations against women being practiced in various regions of the world.

Petition: Sign this petition http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/free-human-rights-activist-chen-guangcheng.html and take it upon yourself to learn, to discuss, and to advocate for what is right. Also build awareness about Chen’s unmerited imprisonment by purchasing a FREE CHEN t-shirt and items: http://www.cafepress.com/freechen

Resources for further advocacy and learning interest:
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Worldwide Appeal CHINA: Prisoner of conscience sentenced

Please write Minister of Justice Aiying Wu Buzhang, to advocate for the calling for the immediate release of prisoner of conscience Chen Guangcheng.

Send letters to: Minister of Justice Aiying Wu Buzhang

Sifabu
10 Chaoyangmen Nandajie
Chaoyangqu
Beijingshi 100020
China
Fax: +86 10 65292345
Email: minister@legalinfo.gov.cn or pfmaster@legalinfo.gov.cn (c/o Ministry of Communications)

http://web.amnesty.org/appeals/index/chn-011006-wwa-eng

End the biggest single holocaust in human history! The crime of global female infanticide and feticide, eliminate gender disparity!

Stop the quiet killing spree in India, China, and other countries that practice female infanticide and feticide. It’s estimated that more than 45 countries on all continents in the past five years have enabled some form of gendercide. "Female infanticide is the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females." (Marina Porras, "Female Infanticide and Foeticide".)

Both India, China, and the world are starting acknowledge that gender selection is a crisis of epic proportions, one that has already seriously tilted the gender balance to favor boys; however the governmental laws to prohibit the practice in India and China have so far been ineffective.
This epic “disappearance” of girls in the last few decades is an underreported international scandal. Undisputed evidence exists that more than 100 million girls and women have been killed for the “crime” of being female since the 1970s and 1980s, and the problem is growing worse.

Where are the massive protests and outrage at the United Nations and among organizations that identify themselves as defending or representing females? This lack of public awareness and outcry to address the single biggest holocaust in human history is deplorable.

A recent study estimated that as many as 500,000 unborn girls are killed each year in India due to gender selection, and an estimated 10 million unborn girls have been killed over the past 20 years based upon gender preference. India now has the world’s lowest sex ratio because of this widespread gender selection practice. India is perhaps the only civilization that worships God in woman-form, but still doesn’t stop many countrymen from killing their own daughters. Earlier baby daughters are killed by smothering, making them lick poison, or simply by not feeding them in India and China.

The People's Republic of China has already committed an anti-female genocide on this scale--(deaths of at least 50 million girls since 1979), and the killing continues. Meanwhile, most of the world including the United States looks away, pretending not to see this massive destruction of human life.

Confront acts of gender-selective mass killing around the world by signing this petition http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/end-the-holocaust-of-female-infanticide-feticide.html. These atrocities against females constitute one of humanity's worst blight, and one of its utmost challenges of the 21st century.