With one billion people going hungry, the climate changing and resources depleting, we are doing what we always do to create sustainable, positive change. We are employing the tactics of the people who went before us, from those involved in the ending of the slave trade to those who ensured an end to South African apartheid. We are campaigning at every opportunity, recognising the power we hold as individuals to change the structures and systems...
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After nine years of campaigning for a legally binding agreement that controls the arms trade on an international level, we are now on the final hurdle to make this a reality. Next month world leaders will meet to draw up the first ever agreement from 2 - 27 July 2012 at the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). This could save many lives and help prevent human right abuses across the world. The...
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I love what happened over the weekend. Not only because of the positive impact it will have on those affected by the crisis in the Sahel, but also because it enables everyone who took action to see what a profound difference campaigning can make. As well as providing us with a great example with which to rebut those oft-made claims that there's no point in signing a petition or writing a letter.
Last week thousands of people across...
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