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Write for Rights: Ithaca NY Amnesty
Letter writing on behalf of prisoners of conscience is a mainstay of Amnesty International’s grassroots activity. Every year, to mark Human Rights Day (December 10), Amnesty activists all over the…
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Virtual Write for Rights-International Human Rights Day 2020 (WA)
Write a letter. Change a life. Join us virtually on December 10th, Human Rights Day, from 6pm to 8pm PST to write letters voicing your solidarity with victims of human…
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AmnestyLA Presents “Gender-Based Violence During the Time of COVID-19”
AmnestyLA is hosting this panel as part of our advocacy efforts for the international campaign, “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.” The purpose of the panel discussion is to…
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GROUP 11 VIRTUAL BENEFIT CONCERT ON DECEMBER 6
On December 6 at 3:00 pm ET Group 11 of AIUSA will present its 45th annual benefit concert in support of human rights. Because of the pandemic it will be…
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Tech giants are complicit in industrial- scale repression in Viet Nam
Tech giants Facebook and YouTube are allowing themselves to become tools of the Vietnamese authorities’ censorship and harassment of its population, in an alarming sign of how these companies could…
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Urgent Action Victory! Yemeni Teenager “Not Guilty” Over Speech Charges (Jordan: UA 15.20)
On 28 July 2020, the Jordanian criminal court deemed Tujan al-Bukhaiti, “not guilty” over charges of “blasphemy” and “insulting religious feelings” in relation to her social media posts. Tujan had…
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Urgent Action Victory! Bill Restricting Access to Safe Abortion Rejected (Slovakia: UA 128.20)
On 20 October, the Slovak Parliament rejected a bill that would have further obstructed access to safe abortion care, violating the human rights of women and girls, and endangering the…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Former Police Investigator Jailed with Covid-19 (Sri Lanka: UA 168.20)
Shani Abeysekara, the former director of the Sri Lankan Criminal Investigations Department (CID) tested positive for COVID-19 on 24 November 2020. According to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Children’s Hospice at Risk, Director Targeted (Belarus: UA 167.20)
Volha Vialichka, the director of the Belarusian Hrodna children’s hospice, is being targeted by the authorities following her role as an independent observer during the disputed August presidential elections in…
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Urgent Action: Blogger Detained in Psychiatric Hospital (Kazakhstan: UA 165.20)
Blogger and journalist, Aigul Utepova, was forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital in Nursultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, on 23 November. She has been under house arrest since 17 September…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Yemeni Teenager “Not Guilty” Over Speech Charges (Jordan: UA 15.20)
On 28 July 2020, the Jordanian criminal court deemed Tujan al-Bukhaiti, “not guilty” over charges of “blasphemy” and “insulting religious feelings” in relation to her social media posts. Tujan had…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Bill Restricting Access to Safe Abortion Rejected (Slovakia: UA 128.20)
On 20 October, the Slovak Parliament rejected a bill that would have further obstructed access to safe abortion care, violating the human rights of women and girls, and endangering the…