Women's rights and Avaaz

Avaaz.org is a successful online community of over 5 million participants that often gathers signatures and donations for various causes - wildlife and environment preservation, revealing corruption, opposing exaggerated corporate lobbies, etc.

Many of their campaigns are raising awareness of women and girls being severely mistreated and threatened in various places in the world. Since gender inequality is a recurring topic on the planets, some may be interested in contributing to campaigns against systematic and even legally allowed abuse and discrimination; the latter is a much greater problem than those that the occasional disgruntled, tactless, supposedly funny or even blissfully unaware male geeks cause, making the FOSS world seem like a hostile place to women.