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  William Shatner · [email protected]
December 13, 2022 at 6:37 PM

A personal message

Star Trek didn't prepare me for this... Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message in error, or would prefer not to receive email from Avaaz, click here to unsubscribe or email u…
  Laura Rico - Avaaz · [email protected]
November 24, 2022 at 7:09 AM

Urgent - Iran issues first death sentences!

It’s shocking -- Iranian courts sentenced five people to death over the mass protests that have swept the country. This follows a brutal crackdown that has left hundreds dead, including children, and many more facing torture, and unfair trials. We can’t stay silent in a moment like this! A…
  Bieta Andemariam - Avaaz · [email protected]
November 13, 2022 at 7:00 AM

World Cup

The families of workers who died in Qatar need our help Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message in error, or would prefer not to receive email from Avaaz, click here to unsubs…
  Prime Minister of Tuvalu Kausea Natano with Avaaz · [email protected]
November 8, 2022 at 8:32 AM

Tuvalu

Dear friends, I'm writing to you with an urgent message as the Prime Minister of Tuvalu: Our country is sinking! My homeland could be one of the first nations to be wiped off the map due to climate change. But we won't give up. We will fight! In a few hours, I'm addressing the climate summ…
  John Senior - Avaaz · [email protected]
October 19, 2022 at 6:37 AM

Death by stoning

Amal is only 20 and a judge decided she deserved death by stoning at the end of a bogus trial. It’s Sudan’s first stoning case in a decade, and she is stuck in jail until the appeals court decides her fate. But massive global outrage could save Amal's life. There’s no time to waste: add yo…
  Kaitlin Hansen - Avaaz · [email protected]
September 25, 2022 at 5:01 AM

Power the Russian resistance

Dear friends, Democracy dies in darkness. In Russia, it’s already night.Since the invasion of Ukraine, Putin has imposed a free speech blackout -- burying independent media and forcing pro-democracy activists into exile. Now he’s handing draft papers to thousands of men to prop up his ever…
  Malala and Vanessa with Avaaz · [email protected]
September 7, 2022 at 5:34 AM

A personal request

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  Nate Miller - Avaaz · [email protected]
August 24, 2022 at 4:51 AM

Nuclear annihilation

This is insane – a huge nuclear site in Ukraine is under attack from rockets and shells! And here’s the really crazy thing. Bombing a nuclear plant isn’t explicitly banned under international law! UN nuclear negotiators are meeting right now – and in days they could make a crucial decision…
  Nathan Miller - Avaaz · [email protected]
August 10, 2022 at 7:53 AM

The UN Secretary General wants to know...

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  Abortion rights defenders around the world, with Avaaz · [email protected]
June 24, 2022 at 10:51 PM

Roe v. Wade

Dear friends, This is horrifying! The US Supreme Court just stripped millions of the right to a safe and legal abortion!But activists from across the world are fighting back -- and they need our help! Add your name to their open letter and let's make it the biggest call for reproductive ri…
  Antonia Staats - Avaaz · [email protected]
June 17, 2022 at 4:35 AM

BREAKING: bullets are flying

We are Maasai Elders from Northern Tanzania. Right now, tens of thousands of our community could be evicted from our ancestral lands to make way for tourism and trophy hunting. Last time Avaaz raised the alarm, the President shelved the plan. So we urgently need you to stand with us again!…
  Diego Casaes - Avaaz · [email protected]
May 25, 2022 at 4:27 AM

Stop the Amazon's massacres

Horrific! A 12yo girl was raped and murdered in the heart of the rainforest. More than 20,000 illegal miners have invaded Yanomami lands Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message…
  Luca Nicotra – Avaaz · [email protected]
May 15, 2022 at 4:34 AM

The most impactful thing we’ve ever done?!

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  Kaitlin Hansen - Avaaz · [email protected]
May 5, 2022 at 4:43 AM

Burnt to the ground

Dear friends, The Maasai’s future is going up in flames.They've been hounded by the Tanzanian government for years -- hundreds of homes have been burnt to the ground.Now the government is even more determined to get rid of them, cutting vital medical services, and threatening to evict thou…
  Laura Rico - Avaaz · [email protected]
April 24, 2022 at 4:34 AM

Tree massacre

Majestic forests around the world are being destroyed to produce ever more beef, palm oil, cocoa, timber, and paper. Now legislators in the US are considering new laws to stop forest-killing products from entering their country -- this could transform global supply chains and help save our…
  Mike Baillie - Avaaz · [email protected]
April 2, 2022 at 5:03 AM

A deafening roar for life on Earth

65 million years ago, an asteroid killed 75% of life on Earth. Today we're facing another mass extinction -- but this time, the asteroid is Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this mess…
  Nobel Peace Prize Laureates with Avaaz · [email protected]
March 27, 2022 at 4:56 AM

Ukraine. NO TO NUCLEAR WAR

Read this message from the Dalai Lama and Peace Prize Laureates... Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message in error, or would prefer not to receive email from Avaaz, click here…
  Nick Flynn - Avaaz · [email protected]
March 16, 2022 at 4:34 AM

Putin on trial

Putin is committing the ‘supreme international crime’ — aggression — right before our eyes. We can and must create a new Nuremberg tribunal. Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this mes…
  Svitlana from Ukraine, with Avaaz · [email protected]
March 9, 2022 at 1:42 PM

Urgent message from Ukraine

I’m writing to you with an urgent message from Ukraine. Putin’s missiles are destroying our cities and killing civilians, including our children – it’s terrifying. And while the world is mobilising to stop Putin's war, Europe as Russia’s biggest trade partner is still fuelling it with bill…
  Laura Rico - Avaaz · [email protected]
March 3, 2022 at 5:36 AM

One signature away

Twelve-year-old girls are forced to keep rape pregnancies, while hundreds of woare abused each year in Honduras. Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message in error, or would pref…
  Bert Wander - Avaaz · [email protected]
February 25, 2022 at 12:28 PM

Ukraine

Dear friends, 50,000 casualties. Millions of refugees. Democracy in retreat.That’s what experts fear could be the deadly cost of Putin’s senseless invasion of Ukraine.Efforts to prevent war have failed, but efforts to end it must succeed. Fast.Civilians are being killed right now because P…
  Maasai elders of Ngorongoro District - with Avaaz · [email protected]
February 17, 2022 at 8:42 AM

An urgent message

We are Maasai Elders from Northern Tanzania. Any day now, tens of thousands of our community could be evicted from our ancestral lands to make way for tourism and trophy hunting. Last time Avaaz raised the alarm, the President shelved the plan. So we urgently need you to stand with us agai…
  Spyro Limneos - Avaaz · [email protected]
February 6, 2022 at 6:48 AM

Poisoned

It’s everywhere: even in the human placenta... Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message in error, or would prefer not to receive email from Avaaz, click here to unsubscribe or e…
  Luca Nicotra - Avaaz · [email protected]
January 22, 2022 at 5:51 AM

We're helping to shape history!

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  Ruth Delbaere - Avaaz · [email protected]
January 12, 2022 at 7:07 AM

Cheetahs on sale now!

Terrified cheetah cubs, tigers, and even baby orangutans -- they're all being sold on Facebook right now! It's the new marketplace for endangered wildlife, creating a safe haven for poachers to sell endangered animals, ivory, and shark fins. We have to stop them! Facebook is incredibly sen…
  Ana Paula Rodrigues - Avaaz · [email protected]
December 12, 2021 at 8:27 AM

Stop this man

The Amazon is going through hell -- by the end of today, an area the size of 3,000 football pitches will be chopped down! Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message in error, or w…
  Mike Baillie - Avaaz · [email protected]
November 22, 2021 at 5:46 AM

Mass dolphin hunt

Over 1,400 dolphins, including pregnant mothers and calves, were slaughtered in the Faroe Islands. Dolphins are one of earth's most intelligent species. They understand joy... and grief. Imagine the terror they faced in that gruesome bay. The Faroese Prime Minister pledged to review hunt r…
  Bert Wander - Avaaz · [email protected]
November 15, 2021 at 2:01 PM

Hope, grief, and pride

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  Greta Thunberg · [email protected]
October 31, 2021 at 6:43 AM

An emergency appeal

The planet is screaming for help, and we have one message for leaders. Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message in error, or would prefer not to receive email from Avaaz, click …
  Anneke Kooijmans - Avaaz · [email protected]
September 26, 2021 at 5:54 AM

Bees -- days left

Billions of bees, butterflies, and beetles... are dying off, threatening ecological collapse. Toxic agricultural pesticides are among the key culprits, but we now have a unique chance to phase them out in Europe. If we help win there, the rest of the world could follow. But to make it happ…
  Patricia Martin Diaz - Avaaz · [email protected]
September 23, 2021 at 7:42 AM

"I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom"

 BRIEFING:  What is climate anxiety? "I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom"- Mitzi Tan, 23, the Philippines That's the heartbreaking story one young person told us about how the climate crisis scares her. And she’s not alone. Avaaz members just funded the biggest-ever surve…
  Gregorio Mirabal from the Wakuenai Kurripako people, with Avaaz · [email protected]
September 8, 2021 at 9:41 AM

Urgent: Extinction Alert

I am writing to you personally as the leader of more than 500 indigenous nations. I'm at the world's largest conservation summit, fighting for indigenous rights and the goal of protecting half the planet, including 80% of the Amazon. But ambition is being throttled by politics, and we’re o…
  Mike Baillie - Avaaz · [email protected]
August 15, 2021 at 8:10 AM

You did this

Dear friends, ​​​​This email is different. Normally we write to you about some crisis or horrible disaster -- but this one is simply to say thank you. A massive, warm, heartfelt thank-you!Thanks to contributions from more than 130,000 of us, our movement granted nearly $10 million to some …
  Mike Baillie - Avaaz · [email protected]
July 7, 2021 at 5:27 AM

Megadrought

Dear friends, This isn't global warming anymore. It's global scorching.Our world is hotter now than any time in recorded history, unleashing a firestorm of heatwaves, megadroughts, and acidifying seas. We are shattering the temple of life, with a million species on the edge of extinction.W…
  Diego Casaes - Avaaz · [email protected]
June 30, 2021 at 6:13 AM

They're murdering the last guardians

This is Paulo Guajajara. He stood in the way as loggers destroyed the Amazon -- and was brutally murdered. He isn't alone: One earth defender is killed every 48 hours. But we can help. Avaaz is at the centre of talks to secure global protections for Indigenous peoples and their ancestral f…
  Sarah Morrison - Avaaz · [email protected]
May 30, 2021 at 9:55 AM

120 women

Raped by their bosses. Assaulted while trying to work. Millions of women face sexual abuse at work. But in weeks, we can help bring to life a groundbreaking treaty that could protect women everywhere from workplace violence. So, let’s deliver our call to champion countries, such as Spain a…
  Laura Rico - Avaaz · [email protected]
May 23, 2021 at 7:28 AM

The results are in!

Our Movement's Ideas for ChangeOur community across the world has taken our annual poll -- sharing hopes and dreams for a better world. Dear friends, The results are in!A few weeks ago, we asked millions of Avaaz members across the world, and in 17 languages, what our top priorities should…
  Fadi Quran - Avaaz · [email protected]
May 15, 2021 at 8:23 AM

Israel I Palestine

We're on the brink of a full-scale war in Israel and Palestine, with Israel bombing Gaza and Hamas firing rockets. The only way to stop this horrific spiral of violence and displacement is to end Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine, and its violent oppression of the Palestinian people…
  Mike Baillie - Avaaz · [email protected]
May 9, 2021 at 6:18 AM

McDonald's

Gruesome factory farms are pumping animals full of powerful antibiotics, creating vicious new superbugs that could kill 10 million people a year by 2050. But if we push McDonald's to slash antibiotics, its sheer size could shift the global industry to more sustainable farming -- and help s…
  Marigona Uka - Avaaz · [email protected]
March 28, 2021 at 7:32 AM

Hanging by a thread

Dear friends, Far away from prying eyes, a calm strip of Atlantic waters in West Africa is home to some of the world’s most threatened marine species.From the critically endangered humpback dolphin and angel shark habitat, to the foraging grounds of sea turtles -- Loango Bay makes up for a…
  Laura Rico - Avaaz · [email protected]
March 21, 2021 at 7:42 AM

Decision time

Dear friends, If you could decide what Avaaz does in 2021, what would you do?Humanity is facing unprecedented threats, from the raging climate emergency to the planet's extinction crisis -- but the months ahead are also packed with golden opportunities to protect the earth and defend human…
  Mike Baillie - Avaaz · [email protected]
February 19, 2021 at 5:31 AM

They don't cry anymore

Dear friends, Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message in error, or would prefer not to receive email from Avaaz, click here to unsubscribe or email [email protected]. …
  Christoph Schott - Avaaz · [email protected]
January 27, 2021 at 5:59 AM

They shot him 13 times

Avaaz.org - The World in Action Ramón's dad was shot 13 times in broad daylight and left to die after defending his land from powerful palm oil companies. Now, Ramón's mum worries for her son's life. But finally a new law in Europe could hold global companies accountable for such hu…
  Luis Morago - Avaaz · [email protected]
January 20, 2021 at 10:12 AM

Trump's last cruelty

Trump's last cruelty At the last-minute, Trump made the unimaginable Avaaz usually sends about one email per week, offering a chance to take quick action on an urgent global issue. If you received this message in error, or would prefer not to receive email from Avaaz, click he…
  Mike Baillie - Avaaz · [email protected]
December 27, 2020 at 9:07 AM

Re: 2020

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  Camille Niaufre - Avaaz · [email protected]
December 20, 2020 at 6:05 AM

Otherwise they drown

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  Spyro Limneos - Avaaz · [email protected]
November 25, 2020 at 4:20 PM

Vaccine

Here's the catch with the Covid vaccines >> the pharma giants that control the patents are driving up their profits by throttling supply to Covid vaccines could save millions of lives -- but Big Pharma giants cont…
  Spyro Limneos - Avaaz · [email protected]
October 22, 2020 at 2:15 PM

Tree massacre

Avaaz.org - The World in Action 476 killed every second to clear space for ever more... Half the Earth's forests are now gone.   476 trees are killed every single second -- to make space for cattle, palm oil, and many things we buy everyday. But now Europe is consider…
  Diego Casaes - Avaaz · [email protected]
September 17, 2020 at 6:00 AM

Stop him

Avaaz.org - The World in Action Brazil's far right Bolsonaro is pushing the Amazon to collapse! Join the call to stop the fires: Brazil's Amazon rainforest could collapse in a few decades, choked by intentional fires and reckless deforestation! But the European Union…
  Martyna Dominiak - Avaaz · [email protected]
September 2, 2020 at 9:43 AM

Total madness

Avaaz.org - The World in Action Oil giant Total is about to build a massive pipeline right through the heart of Africa -- ripping through critical wildlife reserves, displacing tens of thousands of families and further pushing the world to the brink of climate chaos. Let’s call out…