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Azerbaijan: Blogger and Prisoner of Conscience Released!
Imprisoned Azerbaijani blogger Adnan Hajizadze has been released; his colleague Emin Milli is still in prison.
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Success! Senate Holds Powerful Hearing on Women's Rights
Exciting news in the struggle to ratify CEDAW: the Senate is finally moving forward to ratify the Treaty for the Rights of Women, or CEDAW. Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s…
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World’s Largest Democracy Really Good at Detaining Kids without Charge
[caption id="attachment_13669" align="aligncenter" width="202" caption="Protests Against Indian Rule in Kashmir - copyright Majid Pandit, used by permission"][/caption] Take action to free 14-year old boy from jail in Kashmir US President…
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Reggie Clemons Needs More Letters!
Over 3,000 Belgian citizens have handwritten and mailed in letters appealing on behalf of Reggie Clemons, an American who was sentenced to death in St. Louis as an accomplice in…
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Canada Endorses the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On November 12th, Canada joined the majority of the world in supporting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The Declaration is a non-legally binding human…
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Freedom of Expression, Incessantly Suppressed in Latin America
The Inter American Press Association has been calling attention to numerous governmental acts intended to censure and inhibit freedom of expression in Latin America. As political leaders in Bolivia, Ecuador,…
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A Moral Quagmire
The British government announced that it had reached a settlement to pay compensation to sixteen former Guantanamo detainees for the abuses they suffered in US custody.
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Old School Justice
Don’t be fooled by the mock outrage. The system worked. A real trial took place in lower Manhattan and Ahmed Ghailani was rightly convicted of his role in the horrific…
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Rounded Up and Raped in the Congo
The mass rapes that took place in the Walikale region of the Democratic Republic of Congo this past August exposed the vulnerability of civilians and the urgent need to improve…
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Chinese Woman Sentenced to Year in Labor Camp Over Tweet
We're appalled that the Chinese authorities sentenced a woman to a year in a labor camp for retweeting a supposedly anti-Japanese message. They must release her immediately. Chinese online activist…
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Immigration: A Human Rights Issue, Not a Political Issue
By Aida V. Nieto, Bill Archer Fellow for Amnesty International USA On November 5th, the United States appeared before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to review its human…
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Desmond Tutu, Iraqi Prisons Scandal, and More
The winter issue of the members-only Amnesty International magazine is coming soon! You'll find in depth analysis of the Iraqi prisons scandal, a special essay by Desmond Tutu, and lots…