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NetAid is a long-term effort to build a community of conscience
dedicated to providing basic needs: food, shelter, legal protection, human
rights and health care.
NetAid artists and sponsors are committed to focusing public and
political attention on the needs of the world's poorest citizens and to
building an online community that is dedicated to change.
- from NetAid.Org website
Bono's involvement: http://www.netaid.org/performers/bono.htm
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www.jubilee2000uk.org
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Jubilee 2000 is an international movement in over 40 countries advocating
a debt-free start to the Millennium for a billion people. We are
calling for: a one-off cancellation of the unpayable debts of the world's
poorest countries by the year 2000, under a fair and transparent process.
- From Jubilee 2000 Website.
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www.amnesty.org
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Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works
to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty
International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair
and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture
and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances";
and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.
- From Amnesty International Website.
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www.tibet.org
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Tibet Online is operated by the international Tibet Support Group
community, providing information on the plight of Tibet and serving as
a virtual community space for the movement. This movement is dedicated
to bringing about substantive negotiations without preconditions between
the Chinese and Tibetan Governments, so that they can find a solution which
will bring an end to the suffering of the Tibetan people, in accordance
with the people's right to self-determination.
Tibet's ancient and fantastic civilization and ecosystem are faced
with extinction due to 50 years of mismanagement and abuse under its colonial
ruler, the People's Republic of China. We will never rest until the
fate of Tibet is once again back in the hands of the Tibetans.
- From Tibet Online Website
U2 performed at the Free Tibet concert held in New York in 1997.
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www.greenpeace.org
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Greenpeace is an independent not-for-profit campaigning organisation
that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental
problems. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture
life in all its diversity.
Greenpeace seeks to:
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Protect biodiversity in all its forms
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Prevent pollution and abuse of the earth's oceans, lands and fresh water
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End all nuclear threats
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Promote peace, global disarmament and non-violence
-From Greenpeace website
U2's involvement includes participating in the protests at the Sellafield
Nuclear Plant in 1993.
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www.adiccp.org
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The Chernobyl Children's Project is an Irish registered charity
established to help child victims of the world's worst nuclear disaster,
which took place at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in the Ukraine on 26th
April 1986.
The Project began in response to a desperate appeal faxed to the
Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) office in Cork, Ireland in
1991 from doctors caring for children in the Chernobyl-affected country
of Belarus.
- From Children of Chernobyl Website
U2 donated all of the proceeds from "The Sweetest Thing" single to this
organization. Bono's wife, Ali, is a strong supporter of this group
as well.
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www.warchild.org
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War Child stands on the twin beliefs: that we’re not free to ignore
an innocent victim’s plea for help and that children are the seed-corn
of society, its future hope.
War Child interprets the term ‘war zone’ to include areas of current
armed conflict, areas where children are still suffering from the devastation
of war leaves in its aftermath; and areas where children’s lives are in
jeopardy due to poverty, violence and disease.
- from War Child website
U2's involvement includes donating the proceeds of the "Miss Sarajevo"
single to the War Child fund.
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