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What Future for Guinea?
Since the deadly attack on civilians by Guinea's security forces on September 28th, 2009, Guinea is showing many signs of slowly unraveling, leading many to wonder what Guinea’s future will look…
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How Rugby Built a New Nation in South Africa
[caption id="attachment_6592" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Nelson Mandela"][/caption] As a general rule, Americans don't play rugby. We are too litigious of a nation to allow grown men to bash into each other…
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Women of Zimbabwe Arise Report Increased Harassment
[caption id="attachment_6599" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams, Women of Zimbabwe Arise"][/caption] Last month, Magodonga Mahlangu was awarded the RFK Human Rights Award for the work she does as…
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The Human Right to Health Care in Vermont
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Rally at the Vermont State House in Montpelier. "][/caption] Communities across the country are demanding the human right to health care, while Congress is tweaking its…
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Happy Human Rights Day! Now get to work!
[caption id="attachment_6530" align="alignleft" width="215" caption="Human Rights Day - © AI"][/caption] The date of December 10th was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of the Universal Declaration of…
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A Country That Will Drown If Sea Levels Rise
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="315" caption="Maldives Underwater Cabinet Meeting, http://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0"][/caption] The Copenhagen Climate Change conference opened this week with an urgent call to action on the rapidly…
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Honor Women's Rights Defenders by calling for a strong UN agency for Women
[caption id="attachment_6564" align="alignright" width="204" caption="Gertrude Hambira, Zimbabwe. (c) Amnesty International"][/caption] Amnesty International spoke to three inspiring women’s rights activists about the challenges they face in their work, the personal risks…
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Get UN-ited Behind a New UN Women's Agency!
The stats are in: according to Amnesty International’s recent report, The Gender Trap: Women, Violence and Poverty, women comprise 70 percent of the world’s poor and 75 percent of the…
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Indian Adivasis Can't Crash White House Parties
After nearly two weeks, I continue to be surprised at how much news coverage there is about the party crashers who interrupted the White House state dinner with India's Prime…
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My husband's place is not in prison
This post was written by Shaimaa, the wife of Write-a-thon case, Musaad Suliman Hassan Hussein (known by his pen name Musaad Abu Fagr), who has been in administrative detention in…
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Do you think the Mexican military commits human rights violations?
Amnesty International does. It looks like Human Rights Watch does too. So do countless family members of those who have been "disappeared", arbitrarily detained, tortured, or well, all of the above.…
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Write-a-Thon Series: Birtukan Mideksa
This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/ [caption id="attachment_6439" align="alignright" width="222" caption="© AI Birtukan Mideksa"][/caption] Birtukan Mideksa, an opposition party leader, is serving…