Articles Tagged with the word ‘campaigns’

 
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/ Media

21 Mar 2013

 

New independent e-news service the Avaaz Daily Briefing aims to cut through “bias, propaganda, and spin,” to deliver the latest clear-cut news on key global issues

 
(c) Flickr member Andreas
 

/ Conservation, Environment

15 Feb 2013

 

Following a citizens’ campaign, a Europe-wide ban on pesticides posing a danger to bees is being considered, as B&Q and other retailers remove products from sale that contain the chemicals

 
Polar Bear in the Arctic
 

/ Environment

14 Feb 2013

 

Proposals to protect the Arctic by creating a global sanctuary around the North Pole have drawn worldwide support

 
A rainforst in Laos (c) Gnilenkov Aleksey
 

/ Environment

11 Jan 2013

 

Planned study hailed as significant step towards making mass destruction of the environment a crime against peace, while new campaign to end ecocide by 2020 is launched

 
2 credit shuhada organization
 

/ Peace & Democracy

19 Dec 2012

 

Sweden’s ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ has recognised the tremendous efforts of activists around the world working towards global harmony

 
Regional Power Shift rally, US 2011 credit 350.org
 

/ Environment

12 Dec 2012

 

A new global event aims to unify action on climate change and is calling for young environmental leaders to get behind the cause

 

Connecticut scraps death penalty

 
 

/ Justice

11 Jun 2012

 

The US state of Connecticut has scrapped the death penalty after years of work by campaigners