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Clinton to United Nations: "Gay Rights Are Human Rights"
The fight for LGBT human rights took not one but two critical steps forward with key actions by the Obama administration.
December 8, 2011
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Jon Stewart Takes on Guantanamo and the NDAA
The Daily Show called out President Obama and Senators on the NDAA, a bill that would keep Gitmo open and entrench indefinite detention as standard.
December 8, 2011
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Amnesty International Urges Romania To Come Clean Over Secret Prisons
The Romanian authorities must re-open an investigation into CIA secret detention centers on its territory, Amnesty International said today after new evidence of secret prisons was revealed by a German newspaper.
December 8, 2011
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Amnesty International Calls for Immediate Release of Human Rights Activists Arrested in Zimbabwe
Amnesty International said today it considers three Zimbabwean human rights activists arrested this week to be "prisoners of conscience" and called for their immediate and unconditional release.
December 8, 2011
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Recording Artist-Producer Pharrell Williams Joins Amnesty International Youth Activists at “Write for Rights” Event Friday at Los Angeles’ Roosevelt High School
On Friday, Dec. 9 to celebrate Human Rights Day, Amnesty International will host Pharrell Williams, the award-winning recording artist, producer and human rights supporter, who will join 1,200 students and teachers participating in Amnesty's global "Write for Rights" event at Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles.
December 8, 2011
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Amnesty International Urges China to Release Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo and Other Activists
China must release jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo along with others imprisoned for dissent, Amnesty International said today - one year after the Chinese activist won the award.
December 8, 2011
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Turkey's Anti-Terrorism Law Tramples on Human Rights
Many Turkish lawyers, human rights defenders, politicians, and intellectuals remain locked up, victims of an anti-terrorism law desperately in need of repeal.
December 7, 2011
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No Execution For Mumia Abu-Jamal
Prosecutors have given up their quest to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal -- his sentence will now be commuted to life without parole. He should have gotten a new trial.
December 7, 2011
Press Release
Amnesty International Urges Senate Committee to Pass the SAVE Native Women Act
Amnesty International announced today its support for S. 1763, the Stand Against Violence and Empower Native Women (SAVE Native Women) Act. The SAVE Native Women Act was recently introduced on the Senate floor by Senator Daniel Akaka, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. In advance of the Committee’s markup this Thursday, Amnesty International strongly urges the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to unanimously pass S. 1763 and help to end violence against Native women in the United States.
December 7, 2011
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Amnesty International Calls on U.S. Government to Stop Arms Supplies to Egyptian Security Forces
Amnesty International called on the U.S. government today to immediately halt the transfer of U.S.-manufactured ammunition to Egypt amid the Egyptian security forces’ troubling and repeated violent dispersals of protesters.
December 7, 2011
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Amnesty International Welcomes Decision on Mumia Abu-Jamal Case
In response to the Philadelphia prosecutors’ decision not to seek another death sentence for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Laura Moye, director of Amnesty International’s Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty, made the following comments: “This is a welcome decision by the Philadelphia prosecutors. However, Amnesty International continues to believe that justice would best be served by granting Mumia Abu-Jamal a new trial.”
December 7, 2011
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Indefinite Detention: 3 Conservative Voices of Reason
The NDAA threatens to detain suspects indefinitely, undercuts the rights of US citizens, and sideline our best tools in countering terrorism. While it passed the Senate, not everyone agrees.
December 6, 2011