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Minnesota Statewide Meeting!
Get ready for our Statewide Meeting! The details for our statewide meeting have been worked out. It will bring together AI activists from around the state, and some from Wisconsin,…
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Shocking disregard for civilians as U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan adds to death toll
Responding to the reported killing of numerous farmers in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan, on the same day that 20 civilians were reportedly killed in a suicide bomb attack…
Press Release
Arbitrary Arrests, Brutal Beatings and Torture in Hong Kong Police Detentions Revealed
A new Amnesty International field investigation has documented an alarming pattern of the Hong Kong Police Force deploying reckless and indiscriminate tactics, including while arresting people at protests, as well…
Press Release
Lethal Force Legislation Could Save Lives and Protect Communities
In response to the introduction of the Police Exercising Absolute Care for Everyone (PEACE) Act by Representatives Ro Khanna and Lacy Clay, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Amnesty International…
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Takoma Park Street Festival
Stop by our table to sign petitions about our Russia case and refugee rights. Bring your kids and start/continue their human rights education. https://www.facebook.com/AmnestyTakomaParkSilverSpring/
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Tabling at Takoma Park Folk Festival
Stop by our table to sign petitions about our Russia case and refugee rights. Bring your kids and start/continue their human rights education. https://www.facebook.com/AmnestyTakomaParkSilverSpring/
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Christina Cerna
Christina has been involved with Amnesty International since the mid-1970s when she co-chaired AIUSA adoption group #34 with Bernie Hamilton, who headed Minority Rights Group International. In January 1979 she…
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UN Secretary-General Must Publicly Denounce Human Rights Violations In Xinjiang
Antonio Guterres should publicly and unequivocally condemn the Chinese authorities’ abusive policies in Xinjiang and call for an immediate closure of camps containing an estimated one million Turkic Muslims, a…
Press Release
Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future receive Amnesty International’s top honor
Climate change activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement of school-children have been honored with Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2019, the human rights organization announced…
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Amnesty International Missouri Statewide Meeting
Calling all Missouri Amnesty members and human rights activists! Are you interested in learning more about our goals and priorities for human rights in 2020? Are you interested in becoming…
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Urgent Action: Tortured Prisoner Needs Medical Care (Iran: UA 120.19)
Austrian-Iranian businessman Kamran Ghaderi is serving a 10-year prison sentence after a grossly unfair trial that relied on “confessions” obtained under torture to convict him of “co-operating with hostile states…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Rohingya Law Student Suspended from Studies (Bangladesh: UA 118.19)
University student Rohima Akter Khushi has been suspended during her second semester at a private university in Cox’s Bazar solely due to her being Rohingya. One of the very few…