Women of Zimbabwe Arise Report Increased Harassment
Last month, Magodonga Mahlangu was awarded the RFK Human Rights Award for the work she does as co-leader of Women…
December 12, 2009
The Human Right to Health Care in Vermont
Communities across the country are demanding the human right to health care, while Congress is tweaking its latest version of…
December 10, 2009
Happy Human Rights Day! Now get to work!
The date of December 10th was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of the Universal Declaration of…
December 10, 2009
A Country That Will Drown If Sea Levels Rise
The Copenhagen Climate Change conference opened this week with an urgent call to action on the rapidly warming temperatures and…
December 10, 2009
Honor Women's Rights Defenders by calling for a strong UN agency for Women
Amnesty International spoke to three inspiring women’s rights activists about the challenges they face in their work, the personal risks…
December 10, 2009
Get UN-ited Behind a New UN Women's Agency!
The stats are in: according to Amnesty International’s recent report, The Gender Trap: Women, Violence and Poverty, women comprise 70…
December 10, 2009
Indian Adivasis Can't Crash White House Parties
After nearly two weeks, I continue to be surprised at how much news coverage there is about the party crashers…
December 9, 2009
My husband's place is not in prison
This post was written by Shaimaa, the wife of Write-a-thon case, Musaad Suliman Hassan Hussein (known by his pen name…
December 9, 2009
Do you think the Mexican military commits human rights violations?
Amnesty International does. It looks like Human Rights Watch does too. So do countless family members of those who have been…
December 9, 2009
Write-a-Thon Series: Birtukan Mideksa
This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/ Birtukan Mideksa, an opposition party leader,…
December 8, 2009
Suicide Bomber Interrupts Graduation in Somalia
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009: 52 students were set to graduate in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, an unprecedented number for this country…
December 8, 2009
Ohio’s Rush to Resume Killing
UPDATE: Kenneth Biros was executed by Ohio's new, untested, one-drug method. It took the execution team about 30 minutes to…
December 7, 2009