Summer 2007
From Newbury With Love
By Viv Groskop
Marina Aidova remembers the day in 1971 when the postman brought a card from abroad. "I was seven years old. My mother came up to me and said, 'Just look what we have received.'" It was a postcard of Newbury, England, with houses and flowers, and it read simply, "Happy Birthday with love from Newbury, Berks, England. Harold and Olive."| More »
Failure to Protect
By Jodi Rave
More than one in three American Indian and Alaska Native women in the United States will experience sexual violence in her lifetime. The U.S. government is largely to blame, according to AI.| More »
Presumed Guilty
By Jungwon Kim
In the six years since the United States launched the war on terror, the U.S. government has imprisoned thousands of people all over the world. Yet it is Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that looms in the collective imagination as a symbol of how far America has strayed from its most cherished principles--and how quickly.| More »
Presumed Guilty
By Larry Cox
Words cannot describe Darfur's nightmare: the mass killings, the rapes of women and girls, the smoldering villages, the desperation of millions of homeless civilians seeking shelter in makeshift camps.| More »
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Instant Karma: Music heavyweights join Amnesty's campaign for Darfur
By Audrey LaCatis
More than 50 artists have joined Amnesty International's tradition of using music to promote social change by lending their talents to Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.| More »
Notes on a Scandal: Colombia's Paramilitary "Demobilization"
By Alyssa Misner
Since Amnesty International magazine published its investigative report on Colombia's flawed paramilitary "demobilization," (Dominion of Evil, Spring 2007), several key arrests have begun to shed light on just how deeply the tentacles of right-wing paramilitaries reached into the country's political institutions.| More »
Strangers in the Same Land: Internal migrants struggle for their rights
By Alyssa Misner
Rapid economic development is jeopardizing the human rights of millions of internal migrants--people who move largely from rural areas to big cities within the same country as a matter of economic survival.| More »
Success Story: Jennifer Latheef
By Alyssa Misner
Photojournalist Jennifer Latheef had two strikes against her when she was arrested at a 2003 protest in the Maldives: her camera and the fact that her father was the founder of the outlawed opposition party.| More »
