A petition directed at United Kingdom citizens, hosted by the UK Government's Directgov website, has reached over 14,500 signatures as of 18 February.

A petition directed at Estonian citizens has reached over 7,200 signatures as of 18 February.

The campaign includes an online petition directed at President Obama and members of the U.S. Congress, paper airplane petitions that will be delivered to President Obama in 2012, and public events to increase awareness of the case and to collect petition signatures.

In November, the Chicago Tribune columnist Dawn Turner Trice reported that an African-American woman named Theresa Tracy had started a petition directed against the "Flavor of Love" producers.

He took a stand against King Charles by organising a petition, said to contain over 1000 signatures, directed against episcopacy - rule of the Church by bishops.

Claus Emmeche was one of the organizers of a petition directed at Helge Sander's education reforms, which the petition claimed undermined academic freedom by granting a broad majority of the management of universities to people from outside the academic community.

(The Free Software Foundation has also weighed in with a petition directed at hardware vendors.)

The effort to rally anti-Japan sentiment in China began in late February, when several overseas Web sites began circulating a petition directed at the United Nations, which is currently debating a blueprint for changing its governing structure.

In the Papal Curia Romana (court), the office of referendarii Apostolic' ('apostolic referendaries') originated in the Middle Ages; their duty was to receive all petitions directed to the Holy See, to report on them to the pope and to tender him advice.

There is a general understanding that the Office of the Pardon Attorney is insufficiently staffed to handle the number of petitions directed to it for pardons, commutation, and other forms of relief sought by individuals convicted of past offenses.