Wednesday, 24 February 2010

How to Complain

Although the site below is for general complaints, it still can be useful if you wish to tackle certain human rights issues or attempt to make organizations comply with British Law. The section on regulatory bodies will allow you to contact the relevant departments.

http://www.howtocomplain.com/
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Discrimination against homosexuality in Uganda

During the next few weeks, the Ugandan Parliament is debating whether to introduce legislation whereby the death penalty could be used for people caught doing homosexual acts. In the first link, Avaaz is leading a campaign to try and prevent this whilst in the second link there is some more information on the subject.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/10/15/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill-threatens-liberties-and-human-rights-defenders
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Stop Child Poverty

Following on from last week, you can get involved in trying to reduce child poverty in the world with the site below. To take action look under the "Live It" section and look at "Direct Action".

http://www.stopchildpoverty.org/
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Thursday, 4 February 2010

End Child Poverty

The site I have found this week concentrates on improving the lives of children by trying to eradicate child poverty. There is plenty of information about their goals and a section where you can take action.

http://www.endchildpoverty.org.uk/
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