Avaaz is a global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere. 

Avaaz empowers millions of people from all walks of life to take action on pressing global, regional and national issues, from corruption and poverty to conflict and climate change. Their model of internet organising allows thousands of individual efforts, however small, to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force. 

However, the staff at Avaaz have been receiving death threats, had their computers hacked, been threatened on television and radio, and one even had his car tampered with. Their campaigner Wissam was detained at the Cairo airport while delivering our call to stop Egypt's largest mass execution in recent history, taken into a windowless room and interrogated for hours - drilled with chillingly well-informed questions about his personal life, travel, and work with Avaaz! 

Of course, these threats will get worse as they become larger and more effective, taking on some of the most entrenched and powerful players on the planet. That's why Avaaz needs you to help triple-reinforce their security systems, including legal counsel to stand ready for emergencies, media support to raise the alarm if people are threatened, better encryption, and the resources to move staff to a safe location when the pressure gets to be too much.

Pledge now to quickly scale up the protection Avaaz needs.