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Antibiotics

The European Parliament is about to discuss this -- add your name, let’s make our voices heard! Cruel factory farms are pumping healthy animals full of antibiotics and creating dangerous drug-resistant superbugs that can kill us. But if we come together fast, we can get the EU to pass a law to protect animals and our health -- then we'll take this global. Sign now: SIGN THE PETITION Dear friends, Cruel factory farms are pumping healthy animals full of antibiotics so that they can produce more meat, faster and cheaper. This insane cruelty is also creating drug-resistant superbugs that can kill us!   Several European countries have already drastically cut use of antibiotics, and now EU ministers are negotiating laws to do so across the continent. Reducing cruelty to animals while saving human lives is such a no-brainer that even McDonald’s said it'll stop selling chicken reared with some antibiotics in the US. But the farm and pharma lobby is out in full force t...

Slavery in Mauritania

hsi-email-logo-2013.jpg    Dear Usep, We need your help to end slavery in Mauritania­. When Moulkheir Mint Yarba came back from a day of tending her master’s goats under the harsh glare of the Saharan Desert, she found something inconceivable: her tiny baby daughter had been left outdoors to die. Her master wanted to punish her, saying she would work faster without the child to tend to.1 It’s like something from another era, right? Sadly stories like this are all too common across Mauritania, a country where slavery remains entrenched in society, and its prevalence is perpetuated by hereditary or chattel slavery - a system where slave status is inherited from generation to generation and is deeply rooted in social castes and wider societal pressures.2 But there is cause for hope. There are a growing number of anti-slavery activists in Mauritania who are working hard to help women like Moulkheir, and to eradicate slavery in Mauritania. The government...

Andy Hall

hsi-email-logo-2013.jpg    Dear Usep, Andy Hall has been trapped in a nightmare for the last two years. In 2013 a report, which includes his research, was published stating allegations of worker abuse and slavery-like practices in the factory of Natural Fruit, a Thai company that processes pineapples and supplies retailers around the world. Instead of looking into the allegations, Natural Fruit targeted Andy. He was charged with computer crimes and criminal defamation. His trial starts this October and if found guilty he faces 7 years in prison and more than $11 million in damages.  Following our campaigning, Natural Fruit has already had one of their cases against Andy thrown out by the Thai courts.1 We must make sure the remaining charges are dropped immediately. We don’t need to tell you how unjust this is. In Andy’s own words: “This is about persecution. It's a political case to try and silence me... I'm someone that's revealing things that ...