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Animal Charities that Operate Scam Fundraising
"Climate change doesn’t affect everyone equally, it hits the poorest children and communities hardest, deepening the inequalities they already face." - Zahara Nabakooza The exponential growth enabled by birth and political inequity, the absence of any protective floor...
Fair Start’s Open Letter to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice. Who Do You Represent?
The International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) are under mounting pressure to effectively address both Israel’s ongoing conflicts, war crimes by unaccountable authoritarian regimes, and the climate crisis. Their work to date has had...
Fair Start and Truth Alliance File Notice of Preemptive Standards with the California Attorney General
Today the Fair Start Movement and an emerging coalition called the Truth Alliance filed a notice of preemptive standards with the California Attorney General seeking full justice in matters, like consumer fraud, impacting the futures of the most vulnerable children. A...
Do Children Deserve a Fair Start in Life? Why Equity Must Override Legal Formalism
Do you believe children deserve a fair start in life? Prioritizing that is the most effective way to ensure a better world. The idea of an equity override is about putting fairness at the center when the strict letter of the law falls short. At the World Court...
Learn About the Fundamental Driver of the Crises We Face
Join Us: May 15 – Saving the Next Generation: Climate & Inequity
Dear Friend, Join Fair Start Movement, Rejoice Africa Foundation, and partners and allies for a virtual dialogue with Uganda’s NGO Bureau: May 15, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. ET. Register at Fairstartmovement.org/NextGen.We’ll explore bold, collaborative strategies to...
Urging Melinda French Gates to Tell the Truth. Take Action.
Melinda French Gates recently said this about what the wealthy owe others: "Great wealth does not shield you," French Gates says. "I have an absurd amount of wealth and I'm doing my very best to give it away. … But what I want people to know is that I'm a human being...
Children’s Rights Must Not Be Overlooked
A Voice From Mwesigye Robert, Zahara Nabakoza , Esther Afolaranmi and Betty Martin-Finneran. The voices from Africa, and of black communities in the United States, are rising against the fundamentally illegal standards that violate children's rights in poor regions...
Urge Peter Singer to Acknowledge the Truth
This year, Fairstartmovement.org is launching the Tell the Truth campaign, calling on prominent social justice figures to acknowledge their failures as the climate crisis worsens and claims millions of lives. At the root of these failures is the neglect of a...