Life got in the way and I skipped a month of donating and then I forgot to post for the months that I did donate so eff it - here's a combo of organisations to whom (Whom? Who? I'm American. No one here knows when to use whom.) I did manage to donate.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides lifesaving medical humanitarian care, and speaking out about what they see. My primary reason for donating is their work regarding sexual and gender-based violence:
Since sexual violence can occur anywhere at any time, we strive to ensure that all our projects are able to handle sexual violence cases. In some places with high levels of sexual violence—for example, in Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Kenya, and Democratic Republic of Congo—our projects have dedicated services for sexual violence victims, available around the clock. In all cases we strive to offer a comprehensive package of care, including medical treatment of injuries, preventive interventions, and psychological care.
Our medics urge people to seek treatment within three days of an attack if possible, not only to treat physical injuries, but also to prevent disease. Our comprehensive care for victims includes the following:
• Post-exposure prophylaxis using medicines that prevent sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV, syphilis and gonorrhea. To be effective these drugs should be given within three days of the attack. Hepatitis B and tetanus vaccines are also given in some cases.
• Offer of emergency contraceptives for female victims where allowed by law, to prevent unwanted pregnancy.
• Treatment for physical injuries, including surgery, if necessary.
• Pregnancy tests for female victims at follow-up visits, to determine if they became pregnant from their attack.
• Support to female victims whose attack caused an unwanted pregnancy, to help them manage their care and treatment decisions.
• Psychological care.
• Medical certificates to survivors, for legal purposes.
Through Omaze:
HeadCount is a non-partisan organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy. We reach young people and music fans where they already are – at concerts and online – to inform and empower.
We stage nonpartisan voter registration drives at more than 1,000 live events each year and collaborate with cultural leaders to promote civic engagement on a national scale. Since 2004, we’ve signed up over 1,000,000 voters through our work with touring musicians like Ariana Grande, Dead & Company, and Beyoncé and events like Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Pride Festivals and RuPaul’s DragCon.
Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men's health on a global scale, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer. The charity raises funds to deliver innovative, breakthrough research and support programs that enable men to live happier, healthier and longer lives. Movember encourages men to stay healthy in all areas of their life, including staying socially connected and becoming more open to discussing their health and significant moments in their lives.
The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) advocates for justice through accountability for human rights abuses around the world.
We believe that justice means fighting for the rights of individuals unfairly targeted by oppressive governments through the courts: this is what we do through our TrialWatch program. And we work to expose the corruption that fuels grave human rights violations through our other flagship programs: The Sentry, which “follows the dirty money” of human rights abusers to ensure that they face financial consequences through targeted network sanctions, anti-money laundering measures, and other policy instruments; and The Docket, which aims to trigger criminal prosecutions and civil claims against individual and corporate actors who profit from war crimes and human rights abuse.
But justice is more than what is meted out in courts, it is litigated in communities as well. Advancing the cause of justice also means advancing justice for marginalized and vulnerable communities targeted by hate; justice for displaced children deprived of opportunities to learn; justice for refugees seeking to rebuild their lives abroad. Through our projects for marginalized communities, we have partnered with organizations that help to educate refugees, reunite children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border, and litigate against groups that commit hate-crimes in the United States.
Planned Parenthood
After the latest bullshit in Texas where they continue to do everything possible to control a body that is not their own I had to throw some money to Planned Parenthood. See below for info from the site on SB8.
After the latest bullshit in Texas where they continue to do everything possible to control a body that is not their own I had to throw some money to Planned Parenthood. See below for info from the site on SB8.
What is SB 8?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8 into law on May 19, 2021. Sometimes referred to as the “heartbeat bill,” SB 8 is one of the most extreme abortion bans in the entire nation. Effective September 1, 2021, SB 8 bans abortion in Texas at approximately six weeks — before most people even know they’re pregnant — with no exceptions for rape or incest.
For people with a regular menstrual cycle, that’s just two weeks after a missed period.
SB 8 is different from other abortion bans because it contains a “private cause of action,” which is a legal provision that allows private individuals — not the state — to enforce the law.
This provision lets anyone sue an abortion provider and anyone else who helps a patient access abortion care that is prohibited by SB 8. Anyone who successfully sues an abortion provider will be entitled to at least $10,000 and a court order preventing them from providing abortions in the future.
That means anyone, anywhere in the country — from anti-abortion protesters to out-of-state lobbyists — can sue an abortion provider, abortion funds, or anyone who “aids and abets” someone seeking an abortion that is prohibited by SB 8, regardless of whether they are directly involved or even know the patient.
This is a new tactic by opponents of abortion designed to make it harder to challenge the ban in court.
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