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Protection for women a top foreign policy priority
Originally posted on Politico.com By Sen. John F. Kerry, Rep. Bill Delahunt, Kerry Kennedy & Larry Cox Rita Mahato, a mother of three, works as a health adviser for the…
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Finality v. Fairness
Henry "Hank" Skinner is scheduled for execution in Texas on February 24. A two-part review of the case was recently published by the Texas Tribune. He is asking for DNA…
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Human Rights on Several Fronts in Israel/PNA
At a time of significant international interest in the region, Amnesty International hopes that it will lead to a renewed focus on human rights issues as the best way to…
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Resolving Zimbabwe's Farm Crisis is Not Black & White
[caption id="attachment_7662" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="Gertrude Hambira, Secretary General, General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe"][/caption] Thousands of news articles, scholarly articles and panel discussions debate Zimbabwe's land reform program. Almost…
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Giving Life, Risking Death in Burkina Faso
Safiatou (not her real name), 26 years old, married her cousin Hamidou when she was 14. They lived in a village in Burkina Faso, about 100 km south of Ouagadougou,…
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Howard Zinn – a gift to the movement
Today we are deeply saddened by the news of historian and political activist Howard Zinn's death. William Cordery, Senior Development Officer of Amnesty International's Southern Region, shares a few words…
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Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance Has Strong Roots
Remarks made by Bono , New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and President Barack Obama stating they hoped Palestinians would find their Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) or Gandhi…
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Death at Camp Delta
On the evening of June 9, 2006, three inmates of the Guantanamo detention facility known as Camp Delta, Salah Ahmed al-Salami, Mani Shaman al-Utaybi and Yasser Tala al-Zahrani, were found…
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Bangladesh Executes Five For Killing Independence Leader
I was going to write asking for readers of this blog to write to the Bangladeshi authorities and urge them not to execute the five convicted killers (Syed Farooq-ur Rahman,…
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Relief funds help Guantanamo Uighur move forward
Corrected 2/4/10 An attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel contacted me two months ago to ask for my assistance on behalf of one of her firm's Uighur clients who…
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Iran's Beleaguered Baha'i Minority Faces Serious Threat
Seven leaders of Iran’s Baha’i community are currently on trial on serious, but baseless, charges that could lead to the imposition of the death penalty. Although they have done nothing…
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Update on Haiti and yesterday's conference in Canada
The earthquake in Haiti caused unimaginable destruction and grief for a country that was already the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. The Obama Administration has responded to the crisis with…