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The Clean Clothes Campaign is dedicated to improving working conditions and supporting the empowerment of workers in the global garment and sportswear industries, help ensuinge that the fundamental rights of workers are respected. Through education and mobilisation of consumers, lobby companies and governments, they support worldwide workers in the textile industries as they fight for their rights and demand better working conditions.

The CCC calls on all companies involved in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh in April 2013, killing 1,134 people and leaving thousands more injured, to finally make substantial contributions to the compensation fund. It was the worst ever industrial accident to hit the garment industry. Only in this way can the surviving victims and dependents of Rana Plaza be ensured of a dignified existence.

Support the Clean Clothes Campaign with their petition to help demanding a compensation from the responsable companies for the Rana Plaza victims!

Meriam Yehya Ibrahim has been sentenced to death for 'apostasy', or refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Meriam is imprisoned with her newborn baby girl and her 20-month-old son.

"The fact that a woman has been sentenced to death for her religious choice, and to flogging for being married to a man of an allegedly different religion is appalling and abhorrent. Adultery and apostasy are acts which should not be considered crimes at all. It is flagrant breach of international human rights law", says Manar Idriss, Amnesty International’s Sudan researcher.

Meriam has also been sentenced to 100 lashes for being married to a Christian man. She is a prisoner of conscience. Sign the petition and demand her release!

The German Immigration Authorities (Ausländerbehörde) have ordered our colleague, Simran Sodhi, must leave Germany by the end of May. 

Simran is an Indian citizen who works as an Integration-Guide in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick. The Authorities state that Simran is overqualified for the job of an Integration Guide due her MA, and earns too little money. Therefore, they rule that it there is no "public interest" in Simran staying in Germany and continuing her work.

Help Simran Sodhi to continue her professional work which contributes profoundly to German society and sign the petition!

Farmers in Senegal do not only suffer under hard working conditions but have to fear regular land grabbing by officials and companies. "Enda Pronat" a local NGO and partner of the "Weltfriedensdienst" supports local farmers by offering education, legal support and advocacy.

“Good ideas and valuable insights originate from dialogue – from the interaction with other people, from the exchange of different perspectives and personal stories.” Therefore the Berlin based non-profit private company “Dialog macht Schule” decided to take the dialogue to the classroom where trained mentors encourage young students to discover their political identity and to change their direct environment to a better place to be. The project can be supported by donations.

Liberate Tate is a UK based artist group which literally takes action against oil pollution. To address the community and take their issue to the public they use Guerilla perfomances and flash mops. Their great creativity can be followed on facebook, twitter.

In Cameroon sanctions against Homosexuals continue to raise. People with a “wrong” sexual orientation or identity risk to be assaulted, discriminated or put into prison. To stop this violation of human rights Amnesty International started a petition which can be signed.