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Vote for the Power of Words!
You may remember last year when YouTube premiered our animated video "The Power of Words" on its homepage with an introduction by actor, Morgan Freeman. [caption id="attachment_8651" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Vote…
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Gaza Blockade: Amnesty International Delivers 23,000 Signatures to Clinton
[caption id="attachment_8660" align="alignleft" width="324" caption="A boy poses in front of one of more than 4,000 houses in the Gaza Strip that the UN said were totally destroyed or beyond repair…
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We'll Make Them Disappear
“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we [ICE] can make him disappear.” So said James Pendergraph, former Executive Director of the…
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Less than human rights is not an option for people with disabilities
What comes to mind when you hear the word “disability?” Wheelchairs, canes, Seeing Eye Dogs, handicapped signs, mental illness, deafness… Images and thoughts, more often than not, that imply the…
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Saudi Arabia Set to Execute Soothsayer for Sorcery
‘Ali Hussain Sibat was sentenced to death by a court in Madina in November 2009 after secret court hearings where he had no legal representation or assistance. Amnesty International is…
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The Lindsay Lohan Chronicles
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="358" caption="Lindsay Lohan in West Bengal. Copyright: British Broadcasting Corporation, 2010"][/caption] For you, the gentle reader, I plumb the depths of the internet looking for content to…
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Southern Africa To Be One Country
[caption id="attachment_8598" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Bono, South Zamalawimbiqueothobabweibialand's new Head of State"][/caption] I was very excited to read today that ten countries in southern Africa decided to join forces, eliminate borders…
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Haitian Disaster to US Detention
UPDATE: The U.S. freed the 30 Haitian detainees from immigrant detention facilities tonight after they spent about two months behind bars. Here we go again: one more egregious example of…
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College students read last words of the executed
A couple of days ago, we revealed staggering statistics about countries utilizing capital punishment. Our newest report Death Sentences and Executions shows that the U.S. ranks 7th in the world.…
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From American Soil
The disruption of a plot by a clandestine militant group in Clayton, Michigan, to murder law enforcement officials illustrates perfectly what an unholy and inconsistent mess America’s counter-terrorism architecture has…
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New Global Death Penalty Stats Out Today
A Challenge to the Outliers Today we released our annual report on global death penalty statistics. The good news: the world has made progress toward upholding the fundamental right to…
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Don't Quota Me
On February 22, James Chaparro's sixth day on the job as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) behemoth detention and removal operation, he issued a memo directing all…