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The Human Right to Health Care in Vermont
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Rally at the Vermont State House in Montpelier. "][/caption] Communities across the country are demanding the human right to health care, while Congress is tweaking its…
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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 find a vein; once the drug was administered, death occurred…
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Write-a-Thon Series: Shi Tao
This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/ Four years ago, Chinese journalist Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison. His crime? Sending…
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Write-a-Thon Series: Mansour Ossanlu
This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/ [caption id="attachment_6082" align="alignleft" width="167" caption="Mansour Ossanlu"][/caption] Trade Unionist Mansour Ossanlu, age 49, is the leader of…
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Iranian Human Rights Defender Barred from Accepting His Award
[caption id="attachment_6033" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Emadeddin Baghi, leading human rights activist in Iran"][/caption] On Monday November 9, the award ceremony for this year’s winner of the Martin Ennals Award for human…
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Aterciopelados: Big Shout Out for Amnesty International at UN concert
[caption id="attachment_5944" align="alignleft" width="293" caption="Aterciopelados at UN concert ©AI"][/caption] The Colombian rock group Aterciopelados performed last week at the UN Day Concert: A Tribute to Peacekeeping, as they performed their…
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Facing the Crisis of Maternal Mortality
Gouri is in Sierra Leone this week to get a first-hand perspective of how maternal mortality affects the women and families living there. She will be sharing stories throughout her…
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The women I met in Sierra Leone are lucky to be alive
Gouri is in Sierra Leone this week to get a first-hand perspective of how maternal mortality affects the women and families living there. She will be sharing stories throughout her…
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A Medicare-like Public Plan For All: Still Crucial
Over the weekend, the Obama administration may have weakened its support for a "public option" as one part of the health care package emerging from Washington. On Sunday, Health and…
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Welcome Back Laura Ling and Euna Lee!
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two US journalists who had been held by North Korean officials since March on charges that they had entered the country illegally to document human…
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Happy birthday, Medicare!
[caption id="attachment_3326" align="alignnone" width="475" caption="July 30, 1965: President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare into law. Also seated is President Harry Truman, recipient of the first Medicare card. "][/caption] Â Medicare…
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Stuck Between a Rock and U.S. Immigration Policy
Sarnata Reynolds, AIUSA’s policy and campaign director for refugee and migrant rights, spoke at a press teleconference on Thursday July 30th, 2009, set to discuss the bills presented by Senators…