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ICC Review Conference: Governments Should Commit to Justice
As you may have noticed, we released our Annual Report today. As always, both state and non-state actors are doing a great job at abusing human rights. But what’s becoming…
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Team Amnesty Enters the World Cup
With the 2010 World Cup quickly approaching, football fans around the world have been cheering on their teams since the qualification process began in August 2007. In total, 32 countries…
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Iraq: Civilians Under Fire
Seven years after the US invasion of Iraq, violence is still taking the lives of countless Iraqis. Amnesty International’s new report Iraq, Civilians Under Fire exposes the ongoing violence inflicted…
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Civilians Still Need Protection in Eastern Chad
UN peacekeepers that have been crucial in protecting civilians in eastern Chad and northern Central African Republic (CAR) are being asked to leave once the mission’s mandate ends on May…
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Migrants in Mexico: Invisible Victims of Abuse
Every year, tens of thousands of women, men and children make "the most dangerous journey in the world" through Mexico as irregular migrants. More than nine out of every 10…
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Human Rights Commissioners ask how the U.S. can end Violence Against Women.
Earlier this month, I attended the Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on Violence Against Women. This hearing and the witnesses’ testimonies demonstrated the immediate need for passage of…
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Bagram's New Black Hole
Last week the BBC reported that it had interviewed nine Afghan detainees who claimed to have been held in a secret detention facility on Bagram Air Base where they suffered…
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Egypt and the Volcano
You see these peaks of opposition activity that get crushed, and then it flares up and gets crushed again, but the flares get a little higher each time and Mubarak…
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Secretary Clinton: when you go to Guatemala, will you put human rights at the top of your agenda?
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Extrajudicial killings in Guatemala"][/caption] I hope that during US Secretary of State Clinton’s March 4th visit to Guatemala, the grave human rights situation, specifically the extra-judicial…
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Guinea's Bloody Monday Demonstrates Need for Greater Arms Control
[caption id="attachment_8010" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Cartridge casing from a bullet, for a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle, found at Conakry stadium. Copyright Amnesty International"][/caption] There is no question that the September 28th, 2009, Bloody…
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A real chance for accountability for private security contractors
At the end of December, the human rights movement had some disappointing news. Federal Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed the charges against the five Xe (Blackwater) guards accused in the shooting…
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Protection for women a top foreign policy priority
Originally posted on Politico.com By Sen. John F. Kerry, Rep. Bill Delahunt, Kerry Kennedy & Larry Cox Rita Mahato, a mother of three, works as a health adviser for the…