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Indonesian Prisoner Yusak Pakage Released!
Indonesian prisoner of conscience Yusak Pakage has been released from prison! Along with fellow political prisoner Chosmos Yual, Pakage was released this morning from the Doyo Baru prison. Pakage was…
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Activist Held for Exposing Violations in Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe
Amnesty International is calling on the Zimbabwean government to release human rights activist, Farai Maguwu, who exposed the abuses being committed by security forces in one of the country's richest…
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Kevin Keith and the Witness Who Wasn't There
A man faces execution despite a strong claim of innocence. With a conviction based on deeply flawed witness testimony, and emerging evidence pointing to an alternative suspect, doubts about his…
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It's here – UN Women!
Today the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution creating a new entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, otherwise known as UN Women. Amnesty has been campaigning for a…
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When Will the Horror End?
When I returned home this evening, I saw the gruesome pictures showing yet more innocent people killed while preparing to worship in Lahore, Pakistan. The Data Ganj Baksh is one…
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FEMA's Formaldehyde Trailers Are Back…
Formaldehyde-tainted FEMA trailers are back. This time housing workers cleaning up the growing Gulf Oil Spill.
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Victory for Maternal Health in New York!
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="277" caption="Jadzia (the little one), just hours after being caught by a midwife at our home. "][/caption] I had written last week on this blog about the…
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Yahoo – Poster Boy for Internet Censorship
Amnesty International representatives attended Yahoo's shareholder meeting to keep the pressure on Yahoo to push for the release of Shi Tao, imprisoned in China for sending an email.
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A Billion Reasons to Cut Capital Punishment in California
California is broke and California’s capital punishment system is broken. To try and help out, the ACLU of Northern California has launched their “Cut This” campaign – advocating for cutting…
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The Cancer of Democracy
Though some describe the Obama administration as the anti-torture presidency, much of Obama's actions have not lived up to his campaign promises or presidential rhetoric to stop the use of…
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That's Totally Lame
So the Government of India claims that its approach towards its human rights violating neighboring Myanmar (aka Burma) is all swell as the dickens. Um, no. In fact, as Aung…
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Remembering Kalpana Chakma
It was about 14 years ago that a 20-year old indigenous rights activist Kalpana Chakma disappeared and is presumably dead. We know that she was kidnapped along with two of…