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The Ginetta Sagan Award
The Award Recognizes outstanding achievement, often at great personal risk. Enhances the recipient’s ability to live and work freely, and protects the recipient’s capacity to continue her work, by bringing…
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Amnesty International to Newly Confirmed Attorney General: Your Duty is To Uphold the Law, and We Will Hold You Accountable
Despite efforts by civil rights and human rights groups to delay his confirmation, Senator Jeff Sessions was confirmed today as Attorney General. Following is a statement from Margaret Huang, executive…
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Amnesty International USA Deeply Concerned About Human Rights Implications of Sessions’ Nomination as Attorney General
President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he intends to nominate Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as U.S. Attorney General raises serious questions and concerns about human rights protections affecting millions of people, Amnesty…
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The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Let’s Step it Up For Gender Equality!
[caption id="attachment_73941" align="aligncenter" width="1082"] UNPhoto/Sylvain Lietchti[/caption] By Nicole Van Huyssteen, Women’s Human Rights Co-group Sixteen years ago, 189 world leaders gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to adopt…
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Nigeria: Privacy of 21 Chibok girls released should be a priority
Responding to the announcement by Nigerian government that secured the release of 21 Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Regional Advocacy Director, said: “The release of…
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On International Day of the Girl, Stand in Solidarity with Yazidi Women and Girls!
In early August 2014, extremist fighters, who were attempting to create a new Islamic caliphate, the so-called Islamic State (IS), attacked towns and villages in the Mt. Sinjar region of…
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Iraq: Yezidi survivors of horrific abuse in IS captivity neglected by international community
Yezidi women and girls who have been enslaved, raped beaten and otherwise tortured by the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) are being failed by a lack of adequate…
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Women’s rights activists treated as enemies of the state in renewed crackdown in Iran
Iranian authorities have intensified their repression of women’s rights activists in the country in the first half of this year, carrying out a series of harsh interrogations and increasingly likening…
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It’s time to make basic protections for women refugees a priority!
Women refugees have been intimidated, leered at, and targeted by smugglers, uniformed guards, and fellow refugees along their arduous journey.
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Happy Pride!
It’s June, and June means that we’re entering the heart of Pride season here in the United States. Around the country, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their allies…
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The Path to 2 Million @Amnesty Followers
@Amnesty is now over 2 million followers strong. Together, we’ve changed lives and freed prisoners. As with the Amnesty movement of the past 55 years, we’ve gotten here by individual…
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No safe refuge: Asylum-seekers and refugees denied effective protection in Turkey
The European Union (EU) must immediately halt plans to return asylum-seekers to Turkey on the false pretence that it is a “safe country” for refugees, said Amnesty International in a…
