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Chelsea Manning: “Why Speaking Out Is Worth the Risk”
Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified US government documents to the website WikiLeaks. From her prison cell in Kansas, Chelsea tells us why speaking out…
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More People Power: 14 Human Rights Successes So Far in 2015
By Kristin Hulaas Sunde Time to celebrate another 14 global human rights successes in 2015. 1. We helped Moses, a torture survivor on death row, get pardoned in Nigeria After…
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“The America I Believe In”: 3 Hopes for this July 4th
I see this poster every day in the main hallway of our Amnesty International office: it depicts the Statue of Liberty and reads: “The America I believe in leads the…
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5 brave ways activists are fighting for LGBT rights worldwide
Around the world, people face violent attacks and threats simply because of who they are or whom they have sex with. But some brave activists are still standing up for…
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Meet Larry at the AGM: Community Organizer and Young Leader Fellow
Leading up to our 2015 human rights conference in Brooklyn, NY, March 20-22, we are highlighting six Amnesty International USA staff members and moments in their life that have helped build their career in the…
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Chelsea Manning: ‘Why speaking out is worth the risk’
From her prison cell in Kansas, Chelsea Manning tells Amnesty International why speaking out against injustice can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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This is My Real Life. This is My Home. I Matter.
Suffocating smoke fills the night sky; sonic booms shake the black concrete streets while intense screams of men, women and children echo into the air like a blockbuster flick.…
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On the Streets of America: Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed African American man, was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. Brown’s death set off a long-overdue conversation…
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Dispatch from Ferguson: Why We Fight
An Amnesty International USA organizer on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the death of Michael Brown explains what it is like to lead by joining.
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Start Now: 6 Ways You Can Help #StopTorture
Torture happens here - so the fight to #StopTorture has to start here. Here are 6 ways you can join us in that fight.
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How We Can Stop Gun Violence and Save Lives
Horrific events that have rocked our nation have yet to bring about the changes needed to make our public spaces safer.
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Amnesty Goes On the Ground as Repression Worsens in Turkey
In the upside down world of Turkish justice, murderers walk free while Twitter messages risk lengthy prison terms.