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Texas Prosecutors Giving Death Penalty Hearing the Silent Treatment
As a hearing to determine whether the Texas death penalty is unconstitutional began yesterday, prosecutors announced that they will remain silent throughout the process. They have attempted to appeal to…
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Crank It Up – We are Calling on All Crows to help end violence against women around the world!
Earlier this morning, Chad Stokes – lead singer of State Radio and co-founder of women’s empowerment organization Calling All Crows – stopped by the Amnesty DC office along with co-founder…
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Four Years, Seven Months, and Three Days
This post is part of our Write for Rights series. One woman was on her way to buy a birthday gift for her son, another was a volunteer who worked…
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Ivory Coast On The Brink
A week after the Ivory Coast's presidential election, both candidates have declared victory, sworn themselves in and appointed cabinets. Unfortunately, this means a return to violence and instability for the…
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An (Im)perfect DREAM
Thousands of students, families and activists across the country have been waiting nine years for the passage of The DREAM Act, a bill that would help thousands of committed students…
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Displaced Roma Families Head into Brutal Winter without Adequate Housing
This post is part of our Write for Rights series. Around 100 children, women and men, forcibly evicted from their homes by the Romanian government six years ago, continue to…
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Call your Senators TODAY on War Crimes in Sri Lanka
Update: the letter was sent to Secretary Clinton on Dec. 10, with 17 signatories! Here's who signed: Sherrod Brown, Burr, Murray, Hutchison, Casey, Gillibrand, Hagan, Cornyn, Mikulski, Cardin, Lieberman, Lautenberg,…
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Sexual Violence Against Girls in Nicaragua Widespread
A new report released by Amnesty International shows the widespread sexual violence against girls in Nicaragua. More than two thirds of all rapes reported between 1998 and 2008 were committed…
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Is Texas Death Penalty Unconstitutional?
Houston District Judge Kevin Fine will be deciding whether the Texas death penalty is unconstitutional because it risks executing the innocent. A hearing that begins on Dec. 6 will consider…
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Lost in Iraq
Walid Yunis Ahmad is quite possibly the longest serving detainee in Iraq. He is a member of the marginalized Turkoman minority and has been imprisoned in Irbil, Northern Iraq, without…
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From Chaos To Progress, But Not Without Bloodshed
As beautiful as the country is, Brazil has suffered for decades from the creation and development of shantytowns, known to locals as favelas, where poverty, violence and anarchy frequently dictate…
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Let the Stones Scream
Five years ago this month an ancient cemetery in Azerbaijan was wiped off the face of the earth.