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Avaaz.org is an international civic organization that promotes activism on issues such as climate change, human rights, and religious conflicts. Its stated mission is to “ensure that the views and values of the world’s people inform global decision-making.” The organization operates in thirteen languages, and claims more than three million members from every country in the world.

At the 2007 G8 conference, Avaaz.org protested against the “U.S. administration (for its) ‘wrecking tactics’ and failure to agree to specific, binding global goals” when it came to the mitigation of global warming. At the event, Avaaz.org presented a petition signed by 355,000 people from 193 countries that supported its position. Avaaz is also a co-organizer of the Global Day of Action for Burma along with Burma Campaign UK and Amnesty International. It has registered more than 750,000 signatures to a petition to the Chinese President Hu Jintao and the UN Security Council, urging them to “oppose a violent crackdown on the demonstrators” and “support genuine reconciliation and democracy". Avaaz delivered this petition to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on October 15, 2007

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