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Police Chiefs to Death Penalty: Drop Dead
The Death Penalty Information Center released a new study today on the high costs, and lack of real benefits, associated with capital punishment in the United States. The report, called…
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Human Rights Flashpoints – October 20, 2009
What's Up This Week: Afghanistan: Elections Run-Off Angola: Humanitarian Crisis Upcoming This Week Afghanistan Elections – Take Two On Sunday, the UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) announced the results from…
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Angola and DRC Shoving Match Leaves Citizens With Bruises
So it basically goes like this: Angola starts to kick out Congolese citizens living in Angola, almost 18,000Â since July. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) says "for reals?"Â and shows…
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A Pardon 94 Years Too Late
Wednesday, Oct. 14, radio host Tom Joyner became the first person to obtain a posthumous pardon for unjust executions in South Carolina. South Carolina is a typical gung-ho executing Southern…
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Irene Khan on Poverty and Human Rights on Democracy Now!
Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan was on Democracy Now! this morning discussing her new book, The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights. Watch above or on the DN! site,…
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Protesters March on U.S. Capital
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo credit - Yousef Almulhem (September 2009)"][/caption] Tens of thousands of protesters came together at a rally Sunday afternoon following a march through the streets of…
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What Goes Around Comes Around
[caption id="attachment_5757" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Our ad in the Farragut West Metro Station, Washington DC"][/caption] Last month I had the opportunity to meet with Tamil human rights defenders working to protect…
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Human Rights Flashpoints – October 13, 2009
What’s Up This Week: Sri Lanka: Humanitarian Disaster Looms Pakistan: New Violence Upcoming this week Sri Lanka: Trapped Between Military and Monsoon The quarter of a million Sri Lankans locked…
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Honor Killings of Women Brought to Light
Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini’s new book examines the charged issue of honor killings of women that occur in Jordan, Syria, Pakistan, and other countries. Murder in the Name of Honor…
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Getting (even more) Scary in Honduras
If you've been keeping up with the news in Honduras, you know about the crackdown on protesters, crackdown on media outlets, and slow diplomatic talks. [caption id="attachment_5656" align="alignleft" width="204" caption="Supporters…
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Slumming it in Angola
This posting is part of our Forced Evictions in Africa Series [caption id="attachment_5706" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="A woman sits in the ruins of houses destroyed in the Cambamba neighbourhoods of Luanda,…
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Nearly 100 Days of Pressure: Will Shell’s New CEO Come Clean on Niger Delta?
By Anna Phelan, Amnesty International USA’s Business and Economic Relations Group Since the release of Amnesty International’s report Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta (30 June 2009), our…