Take Global Action! Archive

Action Alerts!

• International AIDS Society Action Alert: Send letters to your world leaders to make universal access a reality!
• IDAHO Action Alert: International Appeal to Religions - Special Organizations (sign-on letter)
  (Also available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, German, Arabic, Italian and Portuguese)
  (Deadline May 12, 2010)
• TalkingDrugs Action Alert: Support jailed Uzbek HIV activist Maksim Popov! (English, Italian, Russian, Spanish) (pdf)
• UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board will focus on MSM at their next annual board meeting! Give them your feedback beforehand! (English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, French, Chinese)
• Kenya: "Background and Latest Mtwapa Hunt for Gays" - Local groups ask international activists to wait for their lead
• Human Rights Watch Action Alert: Write to the Government of Kenya on Recent Attacks against Health Workers and Activists
• IGLHRC Action Alert: Stop Violence Against Transgender People in Turkey!
• Human Rights First Action Alert: Continue the Fight Against Antigay Discrimination in Uganda
• Physicians for Human Rights Action Alert: Tell your Senators and Congressperson to co-sponsor resolutions to condemn the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda (United States)
• World AIDS Campaign Action Alert: Demand that world leaders deliver on their promise to provide HIV treatment, prevention, care and support for all those who need it by 2010
• IGLHRC Action Alert: Urge the U.S. Congress to Condemn the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill
• ILGA Action Alert: Potential closure of LGBT organisation in Turkey
• Human Rights First Action Alert: Protect Freedom of Association for Gay Rights Activists in Turkey
• IGLHRC calls on the Malawi government to release men arrested for same-sex engagement ceremony; write to the government!
• East African Treatment Access Movement Action Alert: Sign-on letter against Anti-Homosexuality Bill (pdf)
• US National Coalition for LGBT Health Action Alert: Sign-on letter calling for more expertise on transgender individuals and LGBT of color on Institute of Medicine's LGBT health panel (pdf)
• Action Alert! IGLHRC, IRQO and COC ask you tourge Iran's leaders to stop executions for sodomy charges
• IGLHRC Action Alert: Condemn Arrests of LGBT in Caracas, Venezuela!
• LAMBDA (RKL) Action Alert: Oppose new discriminatory partnership law in Austria! (pdf)
• China: IGLHRC Action Alert! Stop Police Discrimination Against Gay Men in Guangzhou
• SMUG Action Alert! Denounce the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Parliament of Uganda. Protest at the Uganda Diplomatic Mission in Your Country
  • Call to Action (pdf)
  • Ugandan Civil Society Statement (pdf)
  • SMUG Statement (pdf)
  • Anti-Homosexuality Bill Text (pdf)
• Italy: Arcigay Action Alert: Help Fight Homophobia in Italy!
• Uganda: IGLHRC Action Alert: Dismiss the Anti-Homosexuality Bill!
• Partners in Health releases "Declaration of Solidarity for a Unified Movement for the Right to Health", invites endorsements
• Commonwealth: Petition calling on Commonwealth Foundation to provide platform at Commonwealth People's Forum to highlight safeguarding rights of LGBT people (Explanation, Petition)
  (Sign on deadline July 23)
• India: Support Delhi Court’s Decision to Decriminalize Sodomy
• Venezuela: Protest the Murder of a Transwoman in Caracas
• Peru: Protest Discriminatory New Law to Ban Gay Police
• Launch of the "World Appeal against Transphobia and for the Respect of Gender Identity" (Media Release, Press Briefing)
• Advocacy Alert: ICASO details 10 key actions that community sector groups can take to get involved in the UNGASS progress reporting process (pdf)
• Reject Transphobia, Respect Gender Identity: An Appeal to the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the States of the World (English, Spanish, French) (pdf)
• India: Bengaluru Police Brutally Assaulted Sexual Minorities
• Argentina: Thank La Matanza Authorities for Agreeing to Approve Ordinance and Respect Trans Identities

International Advocacy News

• New global advocacy campaign to hold world leaders accountable for promise to fund universal access - Universal Access Now!
• The World's New Gay Rights Battlegrounds: Foreign Policy magazine looks at recent events in Uganda, Malawi, Pakistan and Turkey
• Updates from One Day, One Struggle: Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies

Advocacy Education and Tools

• All together now! Community mobilisation for HIV/AIDS (pdf)
• Global Health Advocacy Manual (pdf)
• Survival Kit: Global Health and the G8. A guide to global health adovacacy in the context of the G8
• Making the Mountain Move (pdf): An Activist’s Guide to How International Human Rights Mechanisms Can Work for You
• Coordinating with communities: Guidelines on the involvement of the community sector in the coordination of national AIDS responses
• Mythbusters Teaching Resource (pdf): "The primary objective of the Mythbusters Teaching Resource is to help instructors of graduate-level courses teach students how to write easy-to-read research summaries for policy makers, planners, managers and providers."
• Tools together now! 100 participatory tools to mobilise communities for HIV/AIDS (pdf)
• An Advocacy Tool Kit for Hospices and Palliative Care Organisations (pdf)
• Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design (pdf)
• A Guide for Fostering Change to Scale Up Effective Health Services
• Advocacy in Action: A Tool Kit to Support NGOs and CBOs Responding to HIV and AIDS (pdf)
• Participation and Empowerment in HIV/AIDS Programming: Policy Brief #2 (pdf)
• An Advocate’s Guide to the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights (1999)