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20 August 2019

  • Colin Kaepernick

    'It's time to speak up': an open letter to Colin Kaepernick

    Etan Thomas
    Your protest started a conversation and inspired an entire generation of athlete activists to find their voices, but the time for silence is over. We need to hear directly from you

2 December 2017

  • Alan Milburn

    The government is unable to commit to the social mobility challenge

    Alan Milburn
    Theresa May’s administration does not have the ‘necessary bandwidth’ to make Britain a fairer, more open society

24 June 2014

  • Tony Blair in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2014

    An appeal to the Quartet on the Middle East to sack Tony Blair

    Open letter

    Open letter: Noam Chomsky, Sir Richard Dalton, Caroline Lucas, Ken Livingstone and others argue that the former UK prime minister is tainted by the war in Iraq

19 May 2014

  • "Kaleidoscope" by Olivia Samec of Western Australia.

    Open letter: these art cuts will impoverish Australian culture

    Christos Tsiolkas, Zora Sanders, JM Coetzee, Jacinda Woodhead, Hannah Kent and more
    Open letter: Art is as crucial a part of our national identity as sport. The deep cuts announced in last week's budget will be devastating for our society

17 June 2013

  • We should not play Russian roulette with Australia's national parks

    Emma Johnston, Corey J A Bradshaw and others

    Open letter: Recent laws allowing hunting and logging in our parks are misguided. Our reserves protect biological diversity and shouldn't be used otherwise

14 August 2012

  • Stars Earn Stripes, from NBC

    NBC's 'Stars Earn Stripes' continues an inglorious tradition of glorifying war

    Jody Williams, Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi, José Ramos-Horta, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Rigoberta Menchú Tum and Betty Williams

    Open letter: As Nobel Peace Prize laureates, we call on NBC to cancel this reality TV show that likens military combat to Olympic athletics

26 June 2012

  • Julian Assange

    An appeal to Ecuador to grant Julian Assange political asylum

    Open letter: We undersigned believe the WikiLeaks founder has just cause to fear extradition to face a possible death penalty in the US

9 April 2012

  • Bahraini anti-government protesters raise images of human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja

    Abdulhadi al-Khawaja's death would be a stain on Bahrain

    Lord Avebury and others
    Open letter: Bahrain risks instigating a collapse of its civic society if it fails to release this respected human rights activist and hunger striker

14 June 2011

  • Bradley Manning

    Rescind President Obama's 'Transparency Award' now

    Open letter

    Open letter: The Obama administration's record on secrecy and surveillance is a disgrace and should not be sanitised by unearned prizes

14 April 2011

  • Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

    An open letter to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

    Alaa al-Ameri
    Alaa al-Ameri: Some say we must 'open the door' to the 'patriot' in Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. After my family's ordeal, I can think of nothing worse

11 April 2011

  • Bradley Manning

    Bradley Manning's inhumane treatment

    Bruce Ackerman and others

    Bruce Ackerman and others: Open letter: The president's own legal training must tell him how the abuse of the alleged WikiLeaks source violates constitutional norms

7 April 2011

  • richard goldstone gaza un

    Justice for Gaza conflict victims: a response to Richard Goldstone

    Open letter

    Open letter: Palestinian human rights organisations express their concern about Goldstone's revised position

2 March 2011

  • haiti election

    Haiti needs the world's support

    Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Slavoj Žižek et al
    Open letter: Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Slavoj Žižek and others call on the US, France and Canada to keep out of Haiti's democratic process in an open letter to the Guardian

24 February 2011

  • Aristide Mbeki exile South Africa

    For helping Haiti, thank you, President Zuma

    Jesse Jackson, Danny Glover and others: Haiti is indebted to South Africa for sheltering ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Please now assist his early return

27 January 2011

  • Jewish Funds for Justice open letter to Rupert Murdoch

    Rabbis Bradley Shavit Artson, Dan Ehrenkrantz, Daniel Nevins, Yael Ridberg, Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, Steven Wernick, Eric Yoffie and others

    Rabbis Bradley Shavit Artson, Dan Ehrenkrantz, Daniel Nevins, Yael Ridberg, Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, Steven Wernick, Eric Yoffie and others: A coalition of 400 rabbis calls for Fox News' Glenn Beck to be sanctioned for inappropriate references to the Holocaust

15 April 2010

  • Neil Armstrong on the moon, 1969

    Obama's devastating Nasa cuts

    Neil Armstrong, James Lovell and Eugene Cernan

    Open letter: Neil Armstrong, James Lovell and Eugene Cernan urge President Obama not to forfeit America's progress in space exploration

14 April 2010

  • Nuclear progress, but dangers ahead

    Open letter
    Open letter: Senior European statesmen and women call for renewed urgency in tackling problems of nuclear proliferation

22 September 2009

  • Europe must stand up for Georgia

    Open letter

    Open letter: Twenty years after half of Europe was freed, a new wall is being built – across Georgia, say Vaclav Havel and others

12 August 2009

  • Dear Mr Ban, heed the Iranian people

    Akbar Ganji

    Akbar Ganji: More than 200 intellectuals, activists and defenders of rights appeal to the secretary general of the UN to take action on Iran

31 July 2009

  • Truth and reconciliation for Iran

    Open letter
    Open letter: To unify Iran, we suggest greater freedoms, an end to outside interference and a truth and reconciliation commission
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