Amnesty Int'l Blocked from Chevron Shareholder Meeting
By Tony Cruz, member of Amnesty International USA’s Business & Economic Relations Group On Wednesday, May 27th, I traveled to…
June 8, 2009
Sri Lanka: what price "stability"?
In an interview published today in The Nation, a Sri Lankan newspaper, Mahinda Samarasinghe, the Minister of Disaster Management and Human…
June 7, 2009
Easterly on Amnesty's Poverty and Human Rights Campaign
Just a word of introduction as this is my first post here. My name's Sameer Dossani and I'm the campaign…
June 6, 2009
Sri Lanka: need stronger action by U.N.
I have to say I'm disappointed. Today, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefed members of the Security Council in an informal…
June 6, 2009
UN Security Council: action needed on Sri Lanka
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to brief the Security Council tomorrow on Sri Lanka. As with past sessions on…
June 5, 2009
Connecticut Is Wrong To Veto Death Penalty Abolition Bill
I am extremely disappointed that Governor M. Jodi Rell today vetoed HB 6578, which would have abolished the death penalty…
June 5, 2009
Guinea-Bissau: Look Kids…Big Ben, Parliament
Just in case you think the odds are slim that two government figures would be assassinated within a 48 hour period…
June 5, 2009
Whatever happened to American leadership?
Yesterday the Council of the European Union, made up of ministers from all 27 EU countries, agreed to allow former…
June 5, 2009
Obama's Speech and the Arab Reaction
In the immediate aftermath of President Obama’s speech today in Cairo, the heavy web traffic of discussion among Arab activists…
June 4, 2009
Iranian Presidential Debate Heats Up
Last night turned into a fiery exchange of words during the second of several debates lined up ahead of next…
June 4, 2009
A New Hope?
Nearly twenty years ago Troy Davis was convicted of killing a Georgia police officer. As has become well known, the…
June 4, 2009
(Trying Not to) Remember Tiananmen
It seems Chinese authorities were busy today. While people around the world commemorated the 20th anniversary of the pro-democracy demonstrations…
June 4, 2009