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‘You May Say That We are DREAMers…’
The Maryland DREAM Act passed on November 6. This is an important victory affords students to pay in-state tuition rates for their higher education.
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Zimbabwe Police Must Release Illegally Detained Human Rights Defenders
Three senior staff members of a registered medical clinic that provides medical services to victims of torture were arbitrarily arrested after police raided their offices in Harare on Monday.
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Saudi Demonstration Highlights a Year of Failure to Investigate Protest Deaths
As Saudi Arabians in the Eastern Province prepared to take to the streets to mark the deaths of at least 14 people in connection with protests there since last year,…
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Iran Must Immediately Investigate Blogger’s Death in Custody
Amnesty International today urged the Iranian authorities to investigate the circumstances that led to the death of a blogger in detention in the capital Tehran who was reportedly tortured in…
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California Death Penalty Hangs On (Barely)
California voters did not end their state's death penalty, but the close vote was further evidence of growing opposition to executions.
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Snapshot Of The Surging Violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
A satellite images captures the destruction caused by new clashes in Rakhine state, Myanmar.
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President Obama: Keep Your Promise to Close Guantanamo
President Obama must make good on his promise to close the prison at Guantanamo, and he must end--and ensure accountability for--human rights violations in the name of "global war."
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President Obama: Recapture the Human Rights High Ground
President Obama’s second term will determine whether the post 9/11 stains on the United States’ human rights record are an anomaly or the new normal.
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Suzanne Nossel, Amnesty International USA Executive Director Calls on Newly Re-Elected President Obama to ‘Recapture the Human Rights High Ground He Staked Four Years Ago’
“President Obama has been given a second chance to keep his promises on human rights. Don’t blow it.”
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Resounding Vote In Favor of Historic Global Arms Trade Treaty Is a Potential Victory for Human Rights Worldwide
157 governments at the U.N. General Assembly’s First Committee on Disarmament in New York voted on Wednesday in favor of finalizing the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) next March.
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Lawmakers in Viet Nam Should Push for an Immediate Moratorium on the Death Penalty
“We urge lawmakers in Viet Nam...to call for a complete moratorium on executions, with a view of abolishing the death penalty."
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Chinese Authorities Must Release Women’s Rights Activist Mao Hengfeng
The Chinese authorities must immediately release prominent women’s rights activist, Mao Hengfeng, who has been sentenced to one and a half years in a labor camp.