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Advocacy for Justice
Advocacy for Justice
Advocacy isn’t the only way to achieve justice, but it is one way to stand in support of the world’s victims of injustice. As citizens of the most wealthy and powerful nation in history, our policies and practices make a strong impact on the world—both in direct impact on developing countries and on the choices other developed nations make in their own foreign policy. Your voice matters! Throughout the year, Acting on AIDS promotes various advocacy campaigns that you can promote within your Acting on AIDS group and within your larger community.| Acting on AIDS National Team meet with Ambassador Mark Dybul to hand over students' signatures. | |
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Advocacy Campaigns
6,000 Challenge for World AIDS Day: Beginning now, we challenge you to mobilize students on your campus and in your community to raise $6,000 and obtain 6,000 signatures for our fundraising and advocacy campaigns. The money you raise will go toward a specific World Vision project (more info coming soon). The petition will advocate the US government for reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) as well as continuing our support for the allocation of 10 percent of global AIDS funding to orphans and vulnerable children. Our national “Do You See Orange?” and Broken Bread Poverty Meal dates are great opportunities to organize students to achieve these goals. Even if your campus is small, you can obtain 6,000 signatures. Get your communities and your churches involved! Follow this link (PDF link) to download the petition, and e-mail Acting on AIDS to let us know your taking the challenge!- Food Aid: 852 million people across the world are hungry. Chronic poverty is a root cause of hunger. Food aid is a key tool in addressing chronic hunger and food insecurity. In conjunction with other programs, food aid can help eliminate poverty and lessen the impact of global hunger. Please support $2 billion in funding for food aid (PL-480, title II) in the 2008 budget cycle and designate that a portion of the funding be flexible for the local cash purchase of food. The United States can help the world's hungry realize the fundamental right to freedom from hunger. Follow this link to learn more about food aid and sign the online petition. Click here to download the paper petition (PDF).
- Child Soldiers: Ask Congress to support the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007 (S.1175) to encourage governments to disarm, demobilize, and rehabilitate child soldiers from government forces and government-supported paramilitaries. Follow this link to sign the online petition.
- Malaria: Each year, an estimated 300 to 500 million people worldwide become ill with malaria and more than 1 million people die from the disease. Of these deaths, approximately 90 percent are African children. Please join us in asking Congress to support the President's Malaria Initiative. Follow this link to sign the online petition.
- Clean Water: Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a disease associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation or poor hygiene. This translates to 1.8 million children a year dying from preventable diseases, such as diarrhea, cholera, malaria and typhoid. Ask your members of Congress to fully fund the Water for the Poor Act and increase foreign assistance funding. By increasing these contributions to water programs, the U.S. will be doing its part to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Follow this link to sign the online petition.
Advocacy on Facebook
Through the new Acting on AIDS Facebook application, you can promote AoA through your Facebook profile, get the most recent updates, and advocate online. This is the first-ever advocacy application on Facebook. Take advantage of this GREAT opportunity to use your voice and get others involved. Visit our Facebook portal to learn more.Recent Advocacy Successes
The proposed doubling of AIDS funding: Thanks in part to your advocacy efforts to prioritize global AIDS funding, President Bush announced plans to double global AIDS funding to more than $30 billion over five years. The new plan was announced a week before President Bush was to meet with other leaders at the annual G8 Summit in June 2007. The proposal will extend the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and broaden care to reach 5 million orphans and vulnerable children.Thank you for your support and leadership in making important global AIDS funding a reality!