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This World Health Day, Shine a Light on Maternal Health
Preventable deaths in pregnancy and childbirth are violations of the right to health, and the right to freedom from discrimination due to gender, race, ethnicity, immigration status, or income level.…
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Supporting California's Call to go "Conflict-Free"
California is leading the way in going "Conflict-Free" by requiring companies to disclose whether their products contain minerals from mines in Africa that help fund armed conflict.
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Serbia urged to stop forced evictions of Roma
In Serbia's capital Belgrade Roma are being forcibly evicted from informal settlements. These forced evictions are in breach of the right to adequate housing. Some Roma families have been resettled…
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The High Cost Of Following Your Conscience In Turkey
Halil Savda, a conscientious objector and human rights defender in Turkey, faces another prison sentence for 'alienating the public from military service.' His sentence shines a light on the lack…
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Hate and Intolerance Find Support in Brazil's House of Representative
Hate and intolerance have a new stage: Brazil’s House of Representatives. While the legislative body was created for reason and discourse, one of its elected officials has found ways to…
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Israel's Campaign to Avoid Accountability for War Crimes Must be Rejected
Justice Richard Goldstone’s opinion piece (April 1, 2011) in the Washington Post ‘Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and War Crimes’ does not ‘vindicate’ the State of Israel as the…
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Arizona Execution Stayed – For Now
The execution of Daniel Cook in Arizona, scheduled for April 5, has been stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court while they consider whether or not to take up his case.…
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California Domestic Violence Case Can Help End Impunity in Kashmir
This is part of a series of articles on Kashmir for Amnesty International's Security and Human Rights Campaign. You can take action to end impunity for human rights violations in Kashmir by…
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Obama Surrenders on Military Commission Trials
Attorney General Eric Holder announced earlier this afternoon that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other alleged co-conspirators in the 9/11 attacks will face trial before military commissions rather than in…
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International community must help probe Yemen’s protest killings
The international community must play a more active role if Yemenis are to get accountability for the bloody killings of recent weeks, Amnesty International said as it released a new…
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More Arrests in Azerbaijan
While the world's attention is on the continuing unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, the ex-Soviet republic of Azerbaijan is intensifying its oppression of dissent.