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This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/© AI Birtukan MideksaBirtukan Mideksa, an opposition party leader, is serving a life sentence in Kaliti Prison in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She was previously arrested in November 2005 aft...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009: 52 students were set to graduate in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, an unprecedented number for this country which has been ravaged by conflict for decades. But the graduation ceremony was interrupted by a suicide bomber.The death toll? 23 people. Dozens more were inju...
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December 7, in addition to being Pearl Harbor Day, is the day when, 27 years ago, Texas became the first state to kill a prisoner with lethal injection. Since then there have been over one thousand lethal injections in the US, all using the same basic three-drug protocol. Tomorrow morning, barri...
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Amnesty International USA We're so excited - Write-a-thon is in full swing! How many letters have you sent?
The New York Times reported this morning that in the past two years the US military has killed more than 400 militants in 80 drone strikes for the loss of only 20 civilian casualties.Pentagon sources credit the increased sophistication of modern weapons systems and intelligence collection platfor...
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Children in Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, South Darfur, Sudan.An internally displaced person is someone forced from their home by natural disaster, extreme poverty or political conflict but do not leave the borders of their homeland. This is the crucial difference between interna...
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This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/© AI - Alisher KaramatovHuman rights defenders Alisher Karamatov (aged 41), and Azam Farmonov (aged 30), were detained on 29 April 2006 as they defended the rights of local farmers who ...
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Yesterday on World AIDS Day, South Africa was in the news quite a bit. The executive director of UNAIDS was in Pretoria for the commemoration and along with South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, called for greater HIV prevention measures. South Africa has the largest population of personR...
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(Originally posted onYouTube Blog)YouTube can be a powerful tool championing the rights of individuals and promoting free expression. This month, during International Human Rights Day, [YouTube is] partnering with Morgan Freeman and Amnesty International to encourage you to become advocates for e...
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Women and children are disproportionally affected by collapse of social services in Zimbabwe. Everything and nothing has happened in Zimbabwe over the past month. Prime Minister Tsvangirai briefly boycotted the unity government. His goal: force the hand of the Southern African Development Communi...
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I wish, I really wish, that I had only good news to report today. Today was the day the Sri Lankan government promised that the displaced civilians who’d been held in military-run camps for the last 6 months would be free to leave the camps “sans any conditions being imposed.” ...
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A day before President Obama is to announce plans for escalating troop deployments in Afghanistan, the US Supreme Court issued an important ruling concerning returning veterans overwhelmed by the trauma of combat.The Court on Monday sent the death penalty case of George Porter back to the state o...
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By Anna Phelan, Amnesty International USA’s Business and Economic Relations GroupLast week President Obama and Prime Minister Singh met to discuss U.S.-India relations; it was the first state visit of President Obama’s administration. According to news reports, the two heads of state discus...
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This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/© AI Musaad Abu FagrA State of Emergency has existed in Egypt since 1981 following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat, but these days the greatest emergency in Egypt is the sta...
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Amnesty International USA We just hit our Global Write-a-thon goal - 250,000 letters! Thank you everyone for your pledges!
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This global action marking International Human Rights Day on December 10 brings people together just about anywhere -- in classrooms, churches, workplaces, homes, and more -- to make a difference in the ...
Bobby Woods has an IQ of around 70 and is scheduled to be executed by the state of Texas on December 3. The crime for which he was sentenced to die was heinous (he was convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl), but executing persons with mental retardation has been forbidden by the ...
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Mysterious Death of Young Iranian Doctor Raises Questions About Official AccountWhen the father of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani was contacted by Iranian authorities, telling him that his 26-year-old son had broken his leg in an accident, and that his permission was needed for an operation, the concern...
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This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/©AIThreatened with rape, death, and kidnapping, Rita Mahato has courageously continued her work to stop violence against women in Nepal. A health counselor at the Women’s Rehabili...
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I finally have good news to report: the Sri Lankan government announced this past Saturday that the displaced civilians unlawfully trapped in internment camps will be free to come and go as of December 1! Amnesty International has been calling for this for the past several months in our “...
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Women of Zimbabwe Arise, Sarah Hager (Amnesty International USA), White House, November 23, 2009I had the honor and pleasure of attending the RFK Human Rights Award ceremony last night, hosted by President Obama and Mrs. Obama at the White House, where Magodonga Mahlangu and Women of Zimbabwe Ari...
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Maajid Nawaz is a British citizen of Pakistani descent who became involved in his youth with the radical Islamic Liberation Party (Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami), undertaking missions for the party in Pakistan and Egypt. Hizb al-Tahrir is an international movement that campaigns for the reestablishmen...
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The death penalty is always inhumane, and the past few days in Texas have brought to light some of its most worrisome aspects.On Wednesday, The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that Robert Thompson’s death sentence for his role in a 1996 robbery and shooting be commuted to life impr...
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AIUSA activists in Chicago demand the release of Internally Displaced People in Sri Lanka. November 2009. (c) AIAcross the U.S., from Boston to Chicago to San Francisco, Amnesty International activists are demanding: “Unlock the camps in Sri Lanka!”As the 26-year-old war between the ...
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Caught between a legal requirement to avoid cruelty, and its desire to kill prisoners, the state of Ohio is struggling to find an acceptable method of execution following the botched, and failed, attempt to put Romell Broom to death on September 15. As reported in today’s New York Times, the met...
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Write-a-thon Update: We're half-way to reaching our goal of sending 250,000 letters!
Thank you for all your support and keep spreading the word to join the world's largest letter writing event!
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This global action marking International Human Rights Day on December 10 brings people together just about anywhere -- in classrooms, churches, workplaces, homes, and more -- to make a difference in the ...
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Amnesty International USA 在 2009 Global Write-a-thon 的塗鴉牆留言。
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