June 11th, 2014
Make an Impact
| type: | Project |
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| by: | Julia Lehmann |
Having an impact is not that easy. But it gets easier when you find the right people to connect with. Impact Hubs exist globally and they offer space and the right atmosphere for all the creative and inspired people around us who are striving to make the world a little bit better. You want to join or open a new hub then check out their website and have an impact yourself.
impacthub.net
May 31st, 2014
Clean water is essential for everyone's health. Worldwide there are more people dieing because of polluted water than because of AIDS. Charity water therefore initiates local water projects which bring clean water to people who need it the most. [...]
charitywater.org
May 31st, 2014
Europe is a home for many million people, but not everyone is welcome here. Every year thousands of refugees are trying to make it to the European cost. Not a few of them dieing on the way to get here. Those who make it to Lampedusa [...]
lampedusa-in-hamburg.org
May 29th, 2014
| type: | NGO, Petition |
|---|---|
| by: | Deniz Zehra Tavli |
The Clean Clothes Campaign is dedicated to improving working conditions and supporting the empowerment of workers in the global garment and sportswear [...]
cleanclothes.org
May 27th, 2014
| type: | Petition, Protest |
|---|---|
| by: | FairPlanet Editorial Team |
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim has been sentenced to death for 'apostasy', or refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Meriam is imprisoned with her newborn [...]
amnesty.org.uk
May 13th, 2014
| type: | Petition |
|---|---|
| by: | FairPlanet Editorial Team |
| org: | change.org |
The German Immigration Authorities (Ausländerbehörde) have ordered our colleague, Simran Sodhi, must leave Germany by the end of May. Simran is an [...]
change.org
April 25th, 2014
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 [...]
endapronat.org
June 18th, 2019
| topics: | Humans, Technology |
|---|---|
| partner: | Screen Shot |
What’s worse than the U.S.’ gun-related deaths being at a 20-year high? Anyone with access to a 3D printer being able to print a fully functioning gun.
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June 17th, 2019
| topics: | Humans |
|---|---|
| by: | Shadi Khan Saif |
As Afghanistan braces for a decisive electoral process, the vulnerable public sector educators are gripped by fears for their life.
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June 14th, 2019
| topics: | Humans, Nature, Economy |
|---|---|
| by: | Peter Kearney |
A relative peace has existed in the north of Ireland for over 20 years. But a new conflict is brewing. Today it’s environment.
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June 13th, 2019
| topics: | Humans |
|---|---|
| by: | Bob Koigi |
He is described by his peers as strong willed patriot, but Ethiopia’s Abel Wabela fight for respect of rule of law has made him pay the ultimate prize.
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June 12th, 2019
| topics: | Humans |
|---|---|
| by: | Cyril Zenda |
“The level of violence in Zimbabwe around election time is just too much and nothing that those of us who have seen our colleagues brutalised can stand."
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June 11th, 2019
| topics: | Humans |
|---|---|
| by: | Ndubuaku Kanayo |
Aggrieved women in Ondo, a South-Western state in Nigeria, took to the streets last month to protest the rising cases of attacks, rituals and kidnapping.
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June 06th, 2019
| topics: | Humans |
|---|---|
| by: | Federica Tedeschi |
Thousands of people of all faiths broke the fast together during a buzzing Street Iftar event in North London.
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June 04th, 2019
| topics: | Nature, Technology |
|---|---|
| partner: | Screen Shot |
Taking climate action means readdressing the foundations of our identities.
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June 03rd, 2019
| topics: | Humans |
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| by: | Cyril Zenda |
Anyone speaking to Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa has to talk loudly. This is not because the 76-year-old leader is getting senile. He [...]
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May 31st, 2019
| topics: | Humans |
|---|---|
| by: | Yair Oded |
A new Change.org petition calls on Alabama House of Representatives Majority Leader to overturn the notorious abortion ban.
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May 29th, 2019
| topics: | Humans, Economy, Arts |
|---|---|
| by: | Federica Tedeschi |
Mediterranea is a platform of different civil society initiatives, whose objective is to save the lives of refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea by boat.
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May 28th, 2019
| topics: | Humans, Technology |
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| partner: | Screen Shot |
For many years, women living in Saudi Arabia had to contend with guardianship—essentially, the men in their lives have complete control over where [...]
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May 27th, 2019
| topics: | Humans |
|---|---|
| by: | Neelo Aysha Scholz |
FairPlanet spoke with New Zealand academic, Rachel Jane Liebert, whose letter to her home country a day after the Christchurch attacks caught our attention.
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May 24th, 2019
| topics: | Nature, Economy |
|---|---|
| partner: | NewsDeeply |
What role is the almond industry playing in advancing groundwater recharge?
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May 21st, 2019
| topics: | Humans, Technology |
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| by: | Sofia Gallarate |
| partner: | Screen Shot |
A group of scientists and academics have joined forces to find a different, more beneficial, approach towards autonomous and intelligent technologies.
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May 20th, 2019
| topics: | Humans, Nature, Economy |
|---|---|
| by: | Cyril Zenda |
Weeks after the calamity of Cyclone Idai, nothing had changed for the villagers around the Nyahode River in Zimbabwe.
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