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About a year ago, my first entry was posted to this site, about the murder of the Sri Lankan editor Lasantha Wickramatunga on Jan. 8, 2009. Mr. Wickramatunga had been an outspoken critic of the Sri Lankan government and his paper, the Sunday Leader, and its staff had previously come under atta...
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Last year ended with the news of a record low number of death sentences, and with the decision by the American Law Institute, described today in the New York Times, to give up trying to fix our broken capital punishment system. The Institute, a collection of thousands of judges, lawyers and law ...
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I’m going to start an ongoing set of posts on the AIUSA blog that will spotlight organizations and individuals of South Asian origin living in the United States that are making a difference in human rights in South Asia that I’m calling “Desi Spotlight”. Desi is a term used by South Asians in th...
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We sent this moving message from Sting earlier today to our email list. In light of the recent startling developments in Iran, we’re also sharing it with you here on our blog:Dear Supporter,I was shocked to hear reports that Iranian security forces arrested 29 mothers and their supporters who w...
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Today, we’re premiering our video homage to supporters who help spread human rights stories far and wide! YouTube is featuring our new, animated video “The Power of Words” on its homepage with an introduction by actor, Morgan Freeman.The video demonstrates why the messages you s...
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Amnesty International USA Watch our new video premiering today on YouTube's homepage! Then help us get the whole YouTube community talking about human rights!
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Abdallah Abu Rahme is affable and articulate. Last July, when I called to set up a time to talk before one of the weekly protests in his village, Bi’lin in the occupied West Bank, he made jokes and explained exactly the best way to get there from Jerusalem through all the checkpoints and r...
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Yesterday, a United Nations panel, commissioned in October to investigate the September 28th massacre in Guinea, released their report on what really happened that day. The report echoes what NGOs have been saying all along, identifying at least 156 people who died that day and at least 109 women...
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Waiting in line to vote. ©Amnesty InternationalAs 2009 winds down, here’s a wrap up of the year’s highlights from the southern Africa region. From elections, to assassinations, to elections, to awards ,to elections, to boycotts, to elections, to what was all in all a fairly smooth yea...
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The latest crude and ham-fisted attempt made by the Iranian government to stifle the legitimate expressions of dissent by its citizens–like all other similar attempts–failed spectacularly.Majid Tavakkoli, a student leader, was arrested after he gave a speech at Amir Kabir University i...
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A young hijra from Goa. Photo by Michael Garten, garten.mike@gmail.comOK, I admit that this post is not really about sex, but about gender identity. But, while you’re here, have a look at some of the positives developments for the rights of sexual minorities in India in 2009. One major c...
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On Thursday, December 10th, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security held a hearing to discuss the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2009, for which AIUSA was invited to submit written testimony. The bill, a close approximation of the early Senate draft of the bill, would make ...
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As 2009 draws to a close we marvel at the extraordinary—and what is sure to be remembered as pivotal—year in Iran. Amnesty International marked International Human Rights Day on December 10 with the launch of its comprehensive report on the post-June 12 election crackdown . While the litany of g...
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As 2009 draws to a close we marvel at the extraordinary—and what is sure to be remembered as pivotal—year in Iran. Amnesty International marked International Human Rights Day on December 10 with the launch of its comprehensive report on the post-June 12 election crackdown . While the litany of g...
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(Originally posted on Jurist)The Obama administration’s announcement that it intends to move “War on Terror” detainees not cleared for release to the Thomson Correctional Facility changes very little beyond enabling President Obama to honor the letter, if not the spirit, of his ...
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30 years ago tomorrow, December 18, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Treaty for the Rights of Women — the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). CEDAW establishes international protections upholding the rights of women: it offers w...
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It’s amazing the power that music has to inspire people to stand up for what they believe in. And it’s also amazing how human rights inspire musicians. There’s a trio of artists who lent their voices this past Human Rights Day and they each have a unique story of their own…Tom Morel...
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George Harrison, former Beatles, singing “Bangla Desh” (Ringo Starr, another Beatles member is at the drums) at the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh in New York City.Well, it’s technically, Liberation Day but close enough. On this day, December 16, 1971, the Pakistani Army surrender...
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Source: Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death PenaltyIt’s always nice to hear good news about the decline of the death penalty, and even nicer when that news is coming out of Texas. According to a recent report, while Texas officials continue to carry out executions at a high rate, the number of T...
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That’s some bad timing U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey had last week. Speaking at a public conference in Egypt, Scobey declared that “Egyptians are very free to speak out. The press debates so many things.” She then implied human rights organizations are free to investigate human rights...
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Iraqi authorities announced last Thursday that they will forcibly relocate about 3,400 members of the Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from Camp Ashraf where they have lived since the mid 1980’s. Reports about where residents will be relocated ar...
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Iraqi authorities announced last Thursday that they will forcibly relocate about 3,400 members of the Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from Camp Ashraf where they have lived since the mid 1980’s. Reports about where residents will be relocated ar...
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A satirical YouTube video showing a press conference by a blogger in a donkey costume was meant to make a point in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan. Instead, it got the activist and his associate behind bars. Now in jail and convicted of “hooliganism,” youth activists Emin Abdullayev and Adnan Hajizade hope ...
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Thousands of residents of the Gulf Coast are unable to exercise their right to return more than four years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall because of a lack of affordable housing. In Mississippi, however, hundreds of federally funded modular homes like those pictured here sit unus...
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The Restore Fairness Campaign recently posted a video describing the horrific plight of Esmeralda.Esmeralda: A Transgender Detainee Speaks Out from Breakthrough on Vimeo.Esmeralda, a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who came to the United States seeking protection and liberty found herself...
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On December 3, 2009, Chrysler launched a major new television ad dedicated to human rights, democracy champion and Nobel Laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a prisoner of conscience imprisoned in Myanmar for the last 14 of 20 years. While most see it as a brand new era in Chrysler’s image, othe...
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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 like. Between interest in Guinea’s rich mineral resources, to concerns about rising ethnic and r...
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Street scene in Imphal, the capital of ManipurNow is the time for Members of Parliament (called the Lok Sabha) to act to repeal the 1958 Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (aka: AFSPA) and its Jammu and Kashmir counterpart. This law allows the Indian security forces to operate in the northeastern...
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Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams, Women of Zimbabwe AriseLast month, Magodonga Mahlangu was awarded the RFK Human Rights Award for the work she does as co-leader of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA). Since her return to Zimbabwe, however, she and co-leader Jenni Williams are reporting increase...
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Nelson MandelaAs a general rule, Americans don’t play rugby. We are too litigious of a nation to allow grown men to bash into each other without being covered head to toe in protective gear. (Consequently, rugby playing nations think American football is for pansies.) So when I lived in So...
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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 world’s illiterate. One in three women – nearly one billion women – will be beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwis...
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