In days, India intends to simply delete millions of Muslims off a list of “citizens.”They will eventually get marched off to prison camps! Sounds unbelievable, right?! But it’s true and we can stop it. Human rights experts are telling us to raise the alarm with a million strong petition to the UN now! Our signatures could activate the UN’s early warning systems and stop the crisis from exploding!

Dear friends,

No home, no family, no country.

In days, India intends to simply delete millions of Muslims from a list of “citizens” and later march them off to prison camps. Sounds unbelievable, right? But it’s true and we have a narrow window to stop it!

We can stop this chilling Nazi-style bureaucracy with international attention. Human rights experts are telling us that a million strong petition asking the UN’s highest human rights body to speak up could do that ASAP. Our community’s global power is desperately needed now before India hits “delete”!

Sign this urgent petition and we’ll deliver it to top UN officials directly!

India is already expecting mass violence to erupt when it tries to make millions of Muslims illegal. That’s why the local government has called for extra troops to be stationed on the ground and started readying extra prison camps.

Nearly 5 million people could be stripped of rights and freedoms! The mood is ugly and anyone perceived to be a Muslim “foreigner” is in serious danger. Even elected Muslim representatives of the local parliament didn’t find their names on an earlier draft version of the “citizens” list.

But few people from the international or national media go to this part of India. So this brutal bureaucracy is at work without adequate scrutiny. If the UN Human Rights Council launches an investigation and sends a team to India right away this genocidal policy could be stopped before it starts.

Sign this urgent petition and we’ll deliver it to top UN officials directly!

Avaaz was built to respond rapidly as a global community to crises unfolding around us. We’ve stepped in to rescue a group of Rohingya people from a massacre but this time, we have a unique opportunity to actually stop one before it starts. Let’s act together to save lives and make sure our children don’t read another sordid chapter in humanity’s history.

With hope and determination,
Flora, Nate, Danny, Alice, Antonia, Melanie and the entire Avaaz team

More information:

As Assam counts its citizens, Muslims fear they may be left out (Al Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/assam-counts-citizens-muslims-fear-left-180530080633948.html

Stateless in Assam (The Indian Express)
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/national-register-of-citizens-5030603/

Assam CM: No fundamental rights for those failing NRC tests (Times of India)
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/assam-cm-no-fundamental-rights-for-those-failing-nrc-test/articleshow/62344296.cms?from=mdr

Indian or not? Muslims fret amid drive against illegal immigrants (Reuters)
https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN1ET06F

Assam seeks 150 companies of central forces ahead of next NRC publication (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/assam-seeks-150-companies-of-central-forces-ahead-of-next-nrc-publication/articleshow/64394147.cms

They will eventually get marched off to prison camps! Sounds unbelievable, right?! But it’s true and we can stop it. Human rights experts are telling us to raise the alarm with a million strong petition to the UN now! Our signatures could activate the UN’s early warning systems and stop the crisis from exploding!

SIGN THE PETITION

Dear friends,

No home, no family, no country.

Sign this urgent petition and we’ll deliver it to top UN officials directly!

With hope and determination,
Flora, Nate, Danny, Alice, Antonia, Melanie and the entire Avaaz team

More information:

As Assam counts its citizens, Muslims fear they may be left out (Al Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/assam-counts-citizens-muslims-fear-left-180530080633948.html

Stateless in Assam (The Indian Express)
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/national-register-of-citizens-5030603/

Indian or not? Muslims fret amid drive against illegal immigrants (Reuters)
https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN1ET06F

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So, tell me you and yours or countries closing their borders do not relate

07/09/2018 Nativegrl77

2018

ref·u·gee

noun: refugee;

plural noun: refugees

a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

“tens of thousands of refugees fled their homes”

UNHCR

Urban Refugees

More than half the refugees UNHCR serves now live in urban areas

Prominent Refugees

An A-Z of refugee achievers around the world.

synonyms:

émigré, fugitive, exile, displaced person, asylum seeker;

boat people

“collecting blankets for the refugees”

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Wildlife …gone? 12 vaquitas left

07/09/2018 Nativegrl77

There’s only 12 vaquitas left, down from 30 last year! But it’s not just the vaquitas we’re losing — we’re seeing a sixth mass extinction, and it’s human-made. Top scientists are backing an ambitious plan to put half of the earth under protection so species can recover but we urgently need governments to get on board. A massive nature summit is happening RIGHT NOW — sign the global campaign for nature and Avaaz will deliver our call straight to the meeting!

SIGN HERE

Dear friends,

We just found out that vaquitas — the super-cute “mini-dolphins” that live off the coast of Mexico — probably won’t survive. We’ve been fighting for them, but there are now only 12 left, down from 30 last year!

It’s not just vaquitas being driven into oblivion. A sixth mass extinction is underway and humans are almost entirely to blame. Almost two-thirds of wild animals have disappeared in the last 50 years!

Scientists say the solution is to protect half the planet, letting nature recover and restore itself — but our governments are dragging their feet because this crisis, and its solution, isn’t at the top of headlines!

But we have a small window to change that: a key nature summit is happening RIGHT NOW in Montreal, where our governments will discuss the course of protection for the next 30 years! Sign the global campaign for nature — Avaaz will take our message to the summit and tell the story we need our leaders to hear:

Click to stop the extinction crisis

Overfishing, deadly pesticides, deforestation, poaching — you name it. Humans are putting every animal and plant in the world in danger. Including ourselves. A UN-backed panel of 550 scientists just confirmed that this massive loss of biodiversity can disrupt our global food system, our oceans, the air we breathe, and even our economies.

But it doesn’t have to be this way — if we can kick start a plan to live in harmony with nature, setting aside half the land and sea, and sustainably managing the other half, we can stop this slide to oblivion.

We need to start paying attention to this crisis now — Avaaz has already met with world leaders and each time they say “we need to see that people care, it’s not in the news!” But they said the same thing about climate change, until we rallied millions across the world and campaigned massively to make it the top of the headlines. The result was the historic Paris Climate Agreement.

Now we need to do the same for nature — let’s sound the alarm for our governments and make sure protection is at the top of their list. Add your name now for our plants and animals:

Click to stop the extinction crisis

Our movement has been at the front lines of environmental defense globally — just recently, 1.8 million Avaaz members pushed Brazil to protect a swath of the Amazon the size of Denmark, FOUR times we’ve helped create a new standard for the largest marine reserve on the planet to save our oceans, and much more. It’s time to unite again, to protect our fellow animals and plants who share this planet with all of us.

With hope and determination,

Diego, Marigona, Danny, Alice, Patri and the rest of the Avaaz team.

SOURCES:

Scientists call for a Paris-style agreement to save life on Earth (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2018/jun/28/scientists-call-for-a-paris-style-agreement-to-save-life-on-earth

Only 12 vaquita porpoises remain, watchdog group reports (MongaBay)
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/only-12-vaquita-porpoises-remain-watchdog-groups-report/

Life on Earth Is Under Assault—But There’s Still Hope (National Geographic)
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/ipbes-biodiversity-report-conservation-climate-change-spd/

Last male northern white rhino’s death highlights ‘huge extinction crisis’ (the Guardian):
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/20/last-male-northern-white-rhinos-death-highlights…

Sixth mass extinction: The era of ‘biological annihilation’ (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/world/sutter-mass-extinction-ceballos-study/index.html

Could we set aside half the Earth for nature? (The Guardian):
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2016/jun/15/could-we-set-aside-half-the-earth-for-nature