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Are States Breaking the Law to Get Execution Drugs?
States may be illegally procuring the drugs needed to continue to kill prisoners among a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental.
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Victims Testify to End Sexual Violence in the Congo
The international community and specifically the United States must play a lead role in demanding an end to impunity for the horrific sexual violence that reoccurs in Congo. We are…
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Fighting Crime Without the Death Penalty
“Bizarre.” This was the answer given by Former Detective Superintendent Bob Denmark of Lancashire, England when asked what people in the UK thought about the execution of Teresa Lewis. “[People] are…
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Kidnapped in Italy, Tortured in Egypt
By Steve Hendricks In 2003 the police of Milan were closing in on a network of Islamic terrorists that recruited suicide bombers—until the radical imam at the heart of their…
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Armenia's Domestic Violence Legislation is Overdue
Twenty-year-old Zaruhi Petrosyan of Masis, Armenia, was beaten to death by her husband and mother-in-law last month. Armenia must pass domestic violence legislation NOW!
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Interested in Kashmir Human Rights? Then, #askai
[caption id="attachment_13669" align="aligncenter" width="202" caption="Protests Against Indian Rule in Kashmir - copyright Majid Pandit, used by permission"][/caption] WHEN: Thursday, October 14, 10am - 11am Eastern US Time (19:30 in India/Kashmir)…
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Democracy Empowers Brazilians to Choose their Own Future
25 years after the end of its military dictatorship, on Oct 3rd 2010 Brazil carried out peaceful and legitimate democratic elections nationwide. Over 135 million Brazilians voted to elect the…
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Ghailani and the Torture Trail
Ahmed Ghailani will go to jail regardless of the outcome of his trial in Manhattan. When a society seeks to deprive someone of their liberty through a legal process, it…
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Three Supreme Court Justices Later Regretted Supporting the Death Penalty
Three out of the seven Supreme Court justices who voted to reinstate the death penalty in 1976 have since said they regretted those votes and, if given a do over,…
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Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize Win Puts Spotlight on China Rights Violations
Amnesty International is thrilled that Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize today and hope his win will shine a spotlight on the struggle for fundamental freedoms and…
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Anna Politkovskaya’s killer still at large four years on
This week it is four years since the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist who since 1999 had written continuously about human rights abuses in Chechnya for the Russian newspaper…