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Join Earth connect and HELP to keep the world focused on EARTH in the months coming up to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009!

The results of the Vote for Earth are going to be presented to world leaders at the conference by people representing all ages, nationalities and ethnicities with one thing in common: we are all concerned about our planet Earth.

Take action today!

ON MARCH 28, THE WORLD VOTED.

Over 1 billion people in 4088 towns and cities worldwide Voted Earth by switching off their lights for Earth Hour.

Global Election

global Election: On Saturday 28 March 2009 will be the Global Election between Earth and Global Warming!

HOpe that yOU will be able to cast your vote in favour of EARTH by TURN OFF your LIGHTS for one HOUR at 8.30pm on SATURDAY 28 mARCH 2009!!

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THe RESUlts are due tO be PResentED at the COPenhagen CLImate CHAnNge SumMIT 2009.

China Government makes Himalayas Region 'Hell on Earth'

Image Source: International Tibet Independence Movement

According to the speech by the Dalai Lama to mark his 50 years anniversary in exile, the cultural revolution and the Chinese Marshall law has made the Himalayan Region of Tibet a 'Hell on Earth'. Read more.

What can you do? Contact your local support group for Tibet.

Support for Tibet Groups
International Campaign for Tibet
Friends of Tibet (India + International)
Friends of Tibet (N.Z.)
Tibet Community in Ireland.

Action Sites
Action Campaign by Four Directions (U.K).
July 6th World Tibet Day

Read about the Chinese Government View on Tibet
Chinese Government website for Tibet
The Chinese government announce the '50th' anniversary of Democratic Reform in Tibet and promote 'Open Mind' about Tibet. Read their views on their website (click above).

Relevant Sites reporting News regarding the situation for Tibet
The Tibet Youth Congress
Gu Chu Sum
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy
International Tibet Independence Movement
Tibet Sites
Claude Arpi lives in India and this site has a wide range of documents and links and articles relating to the history of India.

Teachings Websites
Official Dalai Lama Website
Dalai Lama Foundation
Tibet TV

Sources: Aljazeera News website, Read href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/03/10/dalai-lama-blasts-039brutal-crackdown039-tibet.html">Jakarta Post News Website

The Oldest Abuse in the World - The only way that any policy can change is if we shout loudly enough.

A half page advert in a New Zealand newspaper on behalf of a co-operative advocating the rights of 'sex workers', and in the next paragraph goes on to offer an insight into the benefits for female students and women with 'children to feed' for working in this industry. The author (who was a man of course), is promoting the sex industry to girls and women and in my opinion it is totally wrong to do so.

Some countries have an outstanding record on combating violence against women including prostitution. Sweden is perhaps the best known of these countries and has made prostitution officially a crime of violence against women. In Sweden, if you abuse a women with prostitution you will go to jail. NOTE: This is the MAN going to jail, NOT the prostitute! This is the preferred solution, because the prostitute still retains her full legal rights in the position of being the vulnerable party whom is suffering physical, mental and emotional. The abuser goes to jail.

For those whom excuse prostitution as the 'oldest profession in the world' we can say it is the 'oldest abuse in the world' - see Prostitution Reform website and others listed below for more info.

Websites Supporting Campaign Against Prostitution
Prostitution Reform (U.K.) - ONLINE PETITION
FCAP: NO to legislation of Sex Industry (U.K.)
Prostitution Research & Education (U.S.A.)
Wear Punjammies Campaign by International Princess Project (International)
Stop Child Prostitution (Singapore)
Reclaim the Night (U.K.)
The Lilith Project (U.K.)
Million Women Rise (U.K.)

Want more information?
Prostitution Reform (U.K.)
Wiki: prostitution in Sweden
BBC News: Prostitution is catagorised as Violence against Women in Sweden

Sources: News Article: City Life Independent Herald published in New Zealand on Wednesday 25 February, 2009, Advertising Feature for 'International Sex Workers Day - 3rd March'.
BBC News website, 'How Sweden Tackles Prostitution' accessed 27.2.09 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6343325.stm

Lilya - 4 - Ever

A film from Sweden...

[Film director] 'Moodysson presents a perspective we do not get from Hollywood, where prostitution is romanticized........... When the camera focuses on Lilya, she is seen, at first, unconvincingly trying to smile, then cringing, and, finally, screaming.

Today, anti-trafficking activists encounter the same kind of denial and disbelief about the dimensions of contemporary slavery.

Opponents, including brothel owners and managers, governments who profit from legalized prostitution, and — amazingly — some people who work for human-rights organizations and aid agencies attempt to undermine the work of modern day abolitionists by claiming that sexual trafficking is a myth, overly exaggerated, or that the women and girls consent and accept the violence as the price they pay for a job or to migrate'.

Support Stop Demand campaign against traffiking and prostitution of women and children.

Alternative Actions & More Information

Read about CAST: Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Traffiking
Craigslist Campaign on Love146
Read about The Polaris Project
Check out Stop The Traffik
Join Salvation Army's campaign Stop Human Traffik
Support the Seek Justice campaign by International Justice Mission (IJM)

Source: Stop Demand Website, 27.2.09 https://secure.datumconnect.com/wawcs016272/ln-home.html