HIGHLIGHTS
Success stories from the Avaaz movement worldwide
Many issues, one world
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- a drive for a "million-signature Citizen's Initiative in the EU" for a moratorium and independent testing and regulation of Genetically Modified crops.
- almost $700,000 raised for an intensive, long-term campaign to fight the "rape trade"--the sexual enslavement of women and girls around the world
- strong backing for indigenous communities "petitioning Chevron's new CEO to clean up his company's toxic legacy" in the Amazon.
- support for a democratic resolution to the January 2008 election crisis in Kenya -- tens of thousands of Avaaz members asked their foreign ministers to refuse to recognize any President until Kofi Annan's negations could produce an acceptable compromise.
- worldwide pressure for democratic rights in Pakistan during the November 2007 crisis, and an ad campaign in Pakistan calling for President Musharraf to end the state of emergency.
- a global call for a WTO ruling to ban subsidies for dangerous corporate overfishing of the world's oceans, in which Avaaz members sent tens of thousands of messages to their trade ministers.
- an effort to increase transparency in the UN's selection of the next High Commissioner for Human Rights that "made international headlines through a blog" and a fake job advertisement in The Economist.
- a petition, rally, and protest video supporting efforts to oust Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank after the May 2007 corruption scandal
- a call for regional governments to increase aid donations to help Mexico cope with flooding in November 2007
- co-hosting, with Chatham House, David Miliband's first speech as UK Foreign Secretary -- and bringing him questions from Avaaz members around the world.
