Take Action!

Thursday, 08. 6. 2009  –  by Janice

Take Action!

Take Action: A resource for activists

Tell friends about The Stoning of Soraya M:

1. Download letter/email template here.
2. Send an e-card from the Moral Courage Project

Use your name. Sign these online petitions:

1. One Million Signatures campaign: Started by women in Iran to stop stoning, the campaign seeks signatures from people around the world and will be presented to the United Nations.
2. Stop child executions in Iran: There are currently at least 134 minors on death row in Iran. Sign this petition, to be sent to Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon, Ayatollah Khamenei and Head of the Judiciary of Iran, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. Movement started by a friend of the MCP, Nazanin Afshin-Jam.
3. United Against a Nuclear Iran: A bi-partisan, broad based effort to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, founded by Obama advisors. Sign the petition to show your support in addressing this pressing issue.
   

Contact your representatives:

1. Stop Child Marriage: ask your representatives to co-sponsor the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2009.
2. The Afghan Women Empowerment Act: If passed, this Act will provide critical resources for Afghan women for literacy education, technical and vocational training and health care services that would reduce maternal and infant mortality. The bill will also fund programs to protect women and girls against sexual and physical abuse. Ask your representatives to co-sponsor this bill today!

Use your pen. Tell local papers about the film:

1. Write your local paper to tell them about the film: Download template here
2. Use a published article to introduce the film: Download sample letter here, written in response to "Violence against women a world wide crisis" by Emily Ngo

Donate

1. Women for Afghan Women
2. Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Educate.

1. See our "Issue Fact Sheet" for statistics and facts to help you educate yourself to talk about violence against women.
2. Visit the new United Nations Violence Against Women Database to learn about "the extent, nature and consequences of all forms of violence against women, and on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programmes for, including best practices in, combating such violence."
3. Visit the honor killings database at the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women to read up to date information about honor killings that happen around the globe.

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