Most recent petitions in New Zealand
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Petition to Ban Single-use Plastic Straws at McDonald’s
"Plastic straws and other single-use plastics are a non-essential part of our life. Yet, they cause so much damage to the environment," Get Green Now states. "The degrading of plastic could release chemicals that are toxic to wildlife and the environment." Plastic straws are polluting the environment and is having a very negative effect on marine life. Turtles have been found with plastic straws stuck in their nose. In a country of 4 million people, New Zealanders use 540 million plastic straws
56 Created: 2019-08-19 Statistics
Free ASAP Rocky from Jail
Rapper ASAP Rocky has been arrested for suspicion of assault after getting into an altercation with two drug addicts who were provoking him and his crew, following them around and touching women without consent. Rocky was simply fighting him as self defence, but Swedish Police are viewing this an unwarranted attack. Rocky posted footage showing that he tried to keep the situation from escalating, proving his innocence. ASAP ROCKY IS INNOCENT! #FreeRocky
1002 Created: 2019-07-06 Statistics
Lombokplasticfree
LOMBOKPLASTICFREE Lombok is drowning in plastic. With your signature you unite with all the people who care about the plastic crisis in Lombok/Indonesia. We need to save it now! VISION The main objective of our community is to achieve a law to ban single-use plastic from Lombok. We want to demonstrate to the government of Lombok how many people are alarmed by the mismanagement of plastic consumption. Without restrictions of usage and implementation of proper recycling facilities plastic stays
1148 Created: 2019-07-05 Statistics
PETITION AGAINST THE CABLE CAR AND DESTRUCTION OF THE BELGRADE FORTRESS
We urge all responsible authorities, decision makers as well as institutions in charge of the urban planning and the protection of heritage in Belgrade and Serbia to take urgent steps to stop the construction of the cable car that would connect the Belgrade Fortress and Ušće Park. The Belgrade Fortress is the key historic urban site for understanding the development of Belgrade and the presence of the various civilisations from Prehistoric times, and must be safeguarded as a whole. We believe t
16182 Created: 2019-03-19 Statistics
SOLVING THE GERT VAN ROOYEN/JOEY HAAROFF MISSING CHILDREN CASE
Dear Minister Bheki Cele, We the undersigned is requesting that a new reliable investigating officer is appointed to investigate the Gert van Rooyen/Joey Haaroff missing children case. It is 30 years this year that our girls are missing and the current investigating officer is not making any progress. We demand that the parents get answers. Many people have fractured information and it is time that we get an investigating officer who can put these puzzle pieces together and give these
1630 Created: 2019-01-02 Statistics
Petition to WI Governor to Pardon Brendan Dassey and Steven Avery
Brendan Dassey was 16 when he gave an unreliable, uncorroborated and inconsistent set of statements about a crime, details of which were provided to him by those interviewing him. His youth and cognitive and social limitations made him extremely sensitive to suggestibility, making his confession a text book example of a false coerced confession. Steven Avery, already proven to have been wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a rape case, had a civil suit of $36 million for his wrongful con
398 Created: 2018-11-05 Statistics
Save the Norwegian Institute at Athens!
(English version - scroll down for Norwegian) Petition: Save the Norwegian Institute at Athens! The Norwegian Institute at Athens has for the past three decades been of great importance for the teaching, research, publishing, and dissemination of the culture, history, archaeology, and languages of the Eastern Mediterranean. Now, the Norwegian Institute is facing the danger of becoming terminally shut down, or critically underfunded, due to the severance of its financial support from two of the p
3701 Created: 2018-10-28 Statistics
The UN to intervene on the chaos in zimbabwe
The purpose of this Petition is to request that the United Nations or SADAC intervene into the chaos currently occurring in Zimbabwe. We can all clearly see that human rights are being violated and there are no fair Elections taking place. We want transparency and the figures are not making sense at all. We need individuals or organisations other than the current Zimbabwean government to clear up this mess because they are evidently not taking any form of control to counteract the problems that
3367 Created: 2018-08-01 Statistics
Defend Gay Conversion Therapy
We, the undersigned, consider that Theresa May's proposed ban on offering therapy, healing or prayer for people wishing to be free of same-sex attraction is an attack on freedom of speech, on freedom of choice, on freedom of association, and inasmuch as Christianity may form the backdrop to a desire to be free from same-sex desires, or may constitute an element of the healing process offered, on religious freedom. We call upon Members of Parliament to reject this attempt to to criminalise ideas.
645 Created: 2018-07-06 Statistics
The teaching of Classical Archaeology and Ancient Culture at the University of Helsinki must continue!
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki has announced that the long-standing lectureship in Classical Archaeology and Ancient Culture will not be filled when its current holder retires this year. Those of us who have signed this petition plead that a new lector should be chosen to fill the position and continue its vital academic mission. The lectureship is crucial to the academic integrity of the university, as the teaching of Graeco-Roman material culture not only support
25 Created: 2018-05-11 Statistics