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Rio de Janeiro, Victimized by Drug Dealers
Rio de Janeiro is back on the headlines. This time it’s not for its role future role hosting the World Cup in 2014 or the Olympic games in 2016. Rather,…
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Policemen Force Entry into Women's Shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
On the afternoon of June 9th, 14 men, including six armed municipal policemen and a state court official, arrived at a shelter that works to protect women and children at…
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Peruvian Indigenous Leader Detained, Facing Unfair Trial
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Rio Santiago, Bagua, Peru ©Ronar Espinoza – Vicariato de Jaén "][/caption] Segundo Alberto Pizango Chota, president of the Peruvian national indigenous federation AIDESEP, has been arrested…
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Abandoned Again? Chad Forces the UN Out of the Country
I checked my email this morning to find this message from Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty Canada, currently in Abeche, Chad, and wanted to share it with you. It's…
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Sexual Violence Still Prevalent in the DRC
[caption id="attachment_8970" align="alignright" width="168" caption="Displaced people in Kibati camp, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), November 2008. Copyright: UNHCR/P. Taggart"][/caption] Today, Oxfam International and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative released…
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Soccer, Terrorism, Repression and Constitutions in Angola
[caption id="attachment_7467" align="alignleft" width="168" caption="Angolan president Eduardo dos Santos"][/caption] The new decade started off with a bang in Angola-literally. Fireworks exploded in the night sky at the opening games of…
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Research mission to Chad uncovers heartbreak from broken homes
This posting is part of our Forced Evictions in Africa Series. Amnesty International researchers just completed a research mission to Chad to investigate the recent mass housing demolitions and forced…
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Human Rights Flashpoints – August 25, 2009
NIGERIA - Instability Despite an Amnesty Deal Hundreds of militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, including one of the main rebels group’s (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger…
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Ahmedinejad Blames West for Election Unrest
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad gave a speech on state television on Tuesday insisting it due to the meddling of Western nations that violence broke out following the June 12th presidential…
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Fight Poverty by Protecting Human Rights
(Originally published on the Boston Globe) On the evening of Sept. 18, 2007, six men broke into the home of Justine Masika Bihamba in Goma in the Democratic Republic of…
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Exposing the Truth is Dangerous
Since writing Los Demonios del Edén -- a book that exposed child prostitution and trafficking in Cancun, Mexico -- Lydia Cacho has been under constant harrasment and intimidation. In 2005,…
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Roma persecution – Antiziganism – intensifies in Europe
Perhaps the most oppressed people in history, Roma - commonly referred to as Gypsies - have been persecuted since they arrived in Europe in 1300 C.E. The New York Times…