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Human rights defenders under threat – a shrinking space for civil society
Community leaders, lawyers, journalists and other human rights defenders across the world are facing unprecedented levels of persecution, intimidation and violence, warned Amnesty International today as it launched a new…
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Maine Refugee Rights Action Team Meeting
On Wednesday, May 17th our Portland, Maine Human Rights Action Team will meet at Peleton Labs from 6:00pm-7:30PM. This month we will focus on securing a delegation meeting with Senator…
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Monthly Amnesty Seattle Local Group Meeting
Come join us s we discuss our upcoming information table at El Centro de la Raza's Cinco de Mayo Celebration, planning for a Statewide Meeting this summer, recent death penalty…
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Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings serves as Community Engagement Manager for Community Action of Skagit County (WA) and the Skagit Volunteer Center, coordinating community education about poverty issues, research on the experience of…
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Angie Hougas
Angie Hougas' formative, pre high school years were in Milwaukee, WI, during the turbulent 1960's. Those years were the impetus of her lifelong activism and involvement in civil and social…
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Diana Jones Wilson
Diana Jones Wilson is President and CEO of Faith Partnerships Incorporated, a non-profit organization whose mission and goals are rooted in the idea that the poorest families can be helped…
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Govind Acharya
Education: undergraduate work: University of California, San Diego; graduate work: San Francisco State University and Cornell University in Agricultural Economics. Biography: Based in Davis, California just outside of Sacramento, Govind…
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Aniket Shah
Aniket Shah has spent nearly a decade leading development finance initiatives around the world. His work has ranged from investment banking and asset management to macro-economic research and policy advice,…
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Reza Fakhari
Currently: Vice President for Internationalization and Strategic Initiatives and Professor at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, New York Education:Â Ph.D., with Honors, in International Relations from the New School for…
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Activist Groups
GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS In hundreds of communities across the United States, Amnesty International activist groups come together to protect human rights. There are many ways you can get…
Campaign
Standing Rock
Indigenous communities fought back after the federal government allowed an oil company to build a pipeline near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. The Sioux Tribe was not properly…
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A New Picture Book Inspired by the John Lennon Song
A new book that will be published in September 2017 will bring the fundamental principles of human rights to young people – and readers of all ages. The illustrated book…
