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In This Issue: No. 10: February 2006 
•   U.N. mandate on Darfur urged
•   World Social Forum debates key human rights issues
•   UUSC joins national campaign against torture
•   Nominations invited for UUSC awards
•   Ordinary heroes, an extraordinary story
•   Promoting the rights of poultry workers
U.N. mandate on Darfur urged
With the genocide continuing in Darfur, UUSC is joining with other human rights organizations to call on U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and others for an expanded United Nations role in ending the violence.

Also, a new report explores the increasing violence in Darfur and neighboring Chad.

UUSC joins national campaign against torture
Framing the use of torture as a moral issue, a coalition of leaders of national faith-based organizations, including UUSC, has launched a campaign against U.S.-sponsored torture.

Read the founding statement of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

Ordinary heroes, an extraordinary story
The wartime heroics of UUSC founders Martha and Waitstill Sharp is a fascinating story of how ordinary people, in times of enormous danger, can accomplish great things in service to humanity.

See their compelling story in the Providence Journal.

World Social Forum debates key human rights issues
More than 100,000 civil society leaders from around the world met in Caracas, Venezuela, to discuss social alternatives and pressing human rights issues.

Read coverage of the World Social Forum by the progressive Inter Press Service News Agency.

Nominations invited for UUSC awards
UUSC is accepting nominations for the 2006 Social Action Leadership Award and Mary-Ella Holst Youth Activist Award. The deadline for nominations is April 15, 2006.

Learn more about our top social activism awards.

Promoting the rights of poultry workers
In one of the country’s most dangerous and abusive industries, Mississippi poultry workers are learning organizing and advocacy skills to demand their rights.

Hotwire has the latest on this and other UUSC initiatives.

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