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Websites

* Enact - Youth enabling action!
Website set up to support Youth programmes, sponsored by the Peace Foundation.
* Youth Organised and United
Online forum and rallying point for youth wanting to talk about politics and issues, and looking to effect change.
* Amnesty International
Join in with over 1.5 million people who are already speaking out about human rights.
* Beyond The Fire
Real life stories of 15 teens who have survived the horrors of war in several war zones - stories of loss, hope, fear, despair and above all - strength
* Care 2
An environmental network, promoting healthy living and a healthy world
* Environment Canterbury
Find out about environmental issues in Canterbury - air, coastal, water, waste, pests & weeds, etc.
* Environmental Protection Agency
Learn about your environment and how you can protect it for the future
* Fair Trade Organisation
The global network of Fair Trade Organizations. Their mission is to improve the livelihoods and well being of disadvantaged producers by linking and promoting Fair Trade Organizations, and speaking out for greater justice in world trade.
* Freedom Challenge - Amnesty International
An event to raise your knowledge of global issues and raise money for Amnesty.
* Global Issues
Stuff that affects everyone from environmental trade related issues
* Just Focus
Just Focus is a project for young people, by young people, to engage with issues that affect us in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific, and globally. The goals of the project are responsible global citizenship and change for a just world.
* Kids F.A.C.E.
If you're concerned about the planet and how you can help, Kids For A Clean Environment can point you in the right direction
* NASA Earth Observatory
Absolutely amazing stuff in here. Constantly updated with incredible stories and images about our world
* New Internationalist
Red hot reporting on the issues of world poverty and inequality
* No Sweat
It's a nasty fact but sweat shops do exist. Help support the move toward improving working conditions worldwide. P.S. their wicked sneakers are now available in Trade Aid shops.
* Oxfam
Young leaders from over 150 countries helping to make this a better world
* Rampant
World Vision's Rampant is here to get loud about global issues and connect you with ways you can take action and make change rampant. Cut straight to the point and find out what's really happening in our global community through this website, Rampant e-News and Rampant magazine. Then take it a step further by finding out just what you can do to make a difference.
* Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of NZ
NZ's largest national conservation organisation
* Taking it Global
Events, organizations and scholarships around the world. Get involved thru discussions, workshops and projects.
* Trade Aid
About building just and sustainable communities through fair trade.
* UNICEF Voices of Youth
Join in with what teens are saying about international issues on Voices of Youth
* United Nations Youth Assoc of NZ
Key role players in the establishment of a vision of a healthy, equal & peaceful world.
* World Vision NZ
By request - the NZ World Vision site
* Youth Action
Your chance to make a difference about global issues
* Youth Activism Project
What can you do about what's happening at school, in town or just down the street? This is an American site but it has some fantastic ideas on how you can become completely involved in what's going down.