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Six months later, no sign of missing cartoonist
On Mar. 11, I wrote on this site about Prageeth Eknaligoda, the Sri Lankan journalist and cartoonist. He's been missing since leaving work on Jan. 24. Amnesty Interrnational and other…
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Welcome to India, Junta Leader
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Aung San Suu Kyi"][/caption] Myanmar's junta leader, General Than Shwe has been given the red carpet treatment during his visit to India. Â India should be telling…
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Top 10 Summer Book List for Human Rights Advocates
Here at Amnesty, our staffers have put together a list of books on our summer reading list for human rights. We invite you to read with us as we look…
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Chad Disregards Its Obligation to Arrest Al Bashir
Chad’s government seems to have misplaced its copy of the Rome Statute, the founding document of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir, who was recently charged with…
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Utah's Immigrant Hit List
Last week, at least two Utah state employees were involved in distributing a list of 1,300 names of supposedly illegal immigrants. This 29-page list was sent out to Utah government…
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MOMS for the 21st Century
Amnesty International's pathbreaking report, Deadly Delivery, documented the maternal health care crisis in the United States: women in the United States have a greater lifetime risk of dying of pregnancy-related…
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Sloppy and Suspicious in Oklahoma
Jeffrey David Matthews was slated for execution on June 17, 2010, for the 1994 murder of Otis Earl Short, his great uncle. From the start of the trial process, the…
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Congress passes Tribal Law and Order Act provisions in H.R. 725!
HUGE thanks and a heartfelt congratulations to everyone who has been involved in Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women work, and in particular, the work to end sexual violence and…
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Conflict Minerals Legislation Becomes Law
We were already ecstatic when both the House and the Senate voted in favor of a Wall Street Reform bill that included strong provisions requiring companies that use minerals from Congo…
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Women in Nairobi: Too Scared to Pee
Women and girls in Nairobi's slums live under the constant threat of sexual violence, leaving them often too scared to leave their houses to use communal bathroom facilities. Join Amnesty…
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Musaad Abu Fagr Freed! Egyptian Bloggers Strike Back
The Egyptian government came late to discovering the power of the Internet and social networking, but for the last four years, they’ve made it the center of its efforts to…
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Raúl Hernández: In Jail for Defending the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Raúl Hernández, a member of the Me'phaa Indigenous People's Organization (OPIM), has been detained for over two years for a crime Amnesty International believes he did not commit. He and…