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Happy Human Rights Day!
[caption id="attachment_512" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Manya Menapace, 81, of Pennsylvania, has already started writing letters for the Global Write-a-thon."][/caption] Today is a day when I feel especially grateful for all my…
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Blackwater Indictment Good Step; Better Law Next Step
In indicting five Blackwater personnel, and accepting a guilty plea of a sixth, for the 2007 Nisour Square shootings resulting in the death of 17 Iraqis, the Justice Department relied…
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Time to Start Writing, Stamping, and Sending!
Today is the first official day of Amnesty International's 2008 Global Write-a-thon! Over the next week and a half, thousands of people around the world will be writing letters on…
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US-Iraq Security Agreement Forgets Blackwater
Yesterday, the Associated Press ran the headline US Contractors Lose Immunity in Iraq Security Deal. But, if what comes to your mind when you think of US contractors operating in…
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Esha and the Anatomy of a Human Rights Movement
Isn't it a little unrealistic to think writing a letter asking a world leader to free one prisoner will really make a difference? Maybe. But it's not just one letter--it's thousands that arrive…