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Darfur Refugees Raped in Chad Camps
A new Amnesty International report draws a shocking picture of the fate of women and girls who fled the violence in Darfur to neighboring Chad: Instead of finding safety in…
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Human Rights Flashpoints – September 29, 2009
What's Up This Week: Crackdown in China Food Crisis in Africa Upcoming Dates China: Crackdown in Preparation for 60th Anniversary Party In preparation for the October 1st celebration of the…
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Troy Davis gets visitors in Georgia: Peachy with a side of Keane
By Laura Moye, Death Penalty Abolition Campaign Director This is just a quick note from Savannah, Georgia, where I am right now with a wonderful delegation of folks from the…
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Mugabe Says Things in Zimbabwe are Just Fabulous
President Robert Mugabe granted an interview to CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour today - his first interview with a Western news agency in years. Mugabe spoke to Amanpour while he was in New…
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Torture of U.S. Citizen is First Test for New U.S. Policy Towards Burma
[caption id="attachment_5390" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Burma's Insein Prision, where Kyaw Zaw Lwin is held. © 2009 Digital Globe. All Rights Reserved. Image taken from Google Earth."][/caption] Shortly after U.S. Secretary of…
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Facing the Crisis of Maternal Mortality
Gouri is in Sierra Leone this week to get a first-hand perspective of how maternal mortality affects the women and families living there. She will be sharing stories throughout her…
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Sri Lanka: time to end irregular detention
Mostly I've been blogging about the internally displaced civilians who are being held in internment camps in northern Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government says they can't be released until…
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We called for an end to maternal mortality, the crowd went wild
Gouri is in Sierra Leone this week to get a first-hand perspective of how maternal mortality affects the women and families living there. She will be sharing stories throughout her…
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Mario Masuku Acquitted in Swaziland
Update: Amnesty International released a report today confirming the abuse of media representatives and political activists outside the prison when Mario Masuku was released. [T]he security officers reacted aggressively to the…
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Haiku Anniversary Zimbabwe's GPA
[caption id="attachment_5275" align="alignright" width="216" caption="Prime Minister Tsvangirai (left) and President Mugabe"][/caption] Last week Zimbabwe's Global Political Agreement (GPA) turned one year old. The GPA was negotiated as a political compromise…
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The women I met in Sierra Leone are lucky to be alive
Gouri is in Sierra Leone this week to get a first-hand perspective of how maternal mortality affects the women and families living there. She will be sharing stories throughout her…
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WOZA Activists Beaten Today in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) took to the streets of Zimbabwe over the last two days to commemorate International Day of Peace. As the flyer they handed out during their…