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Public letters and collective appeals across subjects. Read the request, its context and the questions of implementation.
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A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Current & former frontier AI employees
Make serious risk concerns visible and strengthen accountability.
The Bletchley Declaration
Governments at the AI Safety Summit
Enable beneficial AI while addressing shared risks from frontier systems.
Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness
Mozilla & a group of signatories
Improve safety and accountability while limiting concentration of power.
AI Licensing for a Better Future
Encode Justice & Future of Life Institute
Bring present harms and potential catastrophic risks into a common governance agenda.
We Believe in the Freedom to Read
PEN America, We Believe and participating organizations
Protect access to books and inclusive learning environments.
Two Years On, the World Has Failed Us
Aydin Sahba Yaqouby; published by Assembly, Malala Fund
Restore attention and action on Afghan girls’ access to education.
Statement on AI Risk
Center for AI Safety
Make reducing AI-related extinction risk a global priority.
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
Future of Life Institute
Give society time to adapt to increasingly powerful AI.
Open Letter to EU Policymakers on Social Audit Failures
Human and labour rights organizations, including Clean Clothes Campaign
Strengthen remedy and accountability for harms in supply chains.
Open Letter for a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change
Civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations
Give human-rights impacts of climate change sustained institutional attention.
Open Letter in Support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Former leaders and ministers from US-allied countries
Move governments towards prohibiting nuclear weapons.
Millionaires for Humanity: Open Letter
Millionaires for Humanity signatories
Increase public resources for recovery and essential services.
A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate
Journalists of color, with contributors in academia and publishing
Bring institutional power and marginalized voices into debates about free expression.
In Support of a Healthy Recovery
Health professional organizations and individual signatories
Put public health and environmental protection at the centre of recovery spending.
Uniting behind a People’s Vaccine against COVID-19
Political leaders, experts and civil society signatories; published by UNAIDS
Ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics.
Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends
Economist signatories; organized by the Climate Leadership Council
Reduce carbon emissions while returning revenues to citizens.
Joint Letter to President Obama Re: Encryption
Civil society and technology signatories; published by Human Rights Watch
Protect secure communications and obtain a substantive government response.
A Common Word Between Us and You
Muslim scholars and religious leaders
Build peaceful relations between Muslim and Christian communities.
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Research and cultural institutions signing the Berlin Declaration
Broaden access to scientific knowledge and cultural heritage.
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Participants in the Budapest Open Access Initiative
Make scholarly literature freely accessible and usable.
World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity
Union of Concerned Scientists and scientist signatories
Prevent environmental damage and improve stewardship of shared resources.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.
End racial segregation and challenge indefinite delay in securing equal rights.
The Russell–Einstein Manifesto
Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein and fellow signatories
Prevent nuclear war and preserve human survival.
J’accuse…! Lettre au Président de la République
Émile Zola, in L’Aurore
Challenge the conviction of Alfred Dreyfus and demand public accountability.
A selected historical collection, with English summaries. Subject counts describe this archive, not public opinion. New sources were checked on 29 September 2026; earlier records retain their own check dates. Coverage and limits