Host a Film Screening: Take Action
Action Tools
Potential Videos to Show:
- Born Into Brothels (sex slaves/trafficking)
-Well-Founded Fear (US Aslyum/Immigration Policy) http://www.humanrightsproject.org/vid_detail.php?film_id=11
-Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan (women in garment industry) http://www.humanrightsproject.org/vid_detail.php?film_id=1
-Trading Women
-Lilja 4-Ever
-Promised Land,
-Union Democracy
-Bread and Roses
-Sweatshops: The Reel World of Globalization
Actions
- Write for those Who Can't: Help ratify the Enforced Disappearance Convention
- Make Your Voice Heard: write to senators, governments and others about pressing human rights issues
- Reach Out with Media by posting videos to your facebook
- Define Human Rights, read them over morning anouncments
- Start a blog highlighting human rights issues & violations and what’s being done to help ensure that everyone has basic rights
- Start a Poster Campaign focused on specific human rights issues
- Host a Fundraiser and have the proceeds donated to Mercy Corps programs in countries with human rights violations
- Be an Informed Consumer and try to buy only fair trade items
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