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Ordered Rape of Dalit Sisters Highlights Severe Caste and Gender Discrimination in India
By Gopika Bashi, @gopikabashi, Women’s Rights Researcher, Amnesty International India On 24 August, Amnesty International India launched a petition regarding two Dalit sisters who had been ordered to be raped and paraded…
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Belarus: Political Prisoners Released, but Authorities Need to Do More for Human Rights
By Viachaslau “Slava” Bortnik On August 22, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenka issued an order “based on the principle of humanism” to release six political prisoners, including Mikalai Statkevich and Yury…
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How You Can Fight Against “the Worst Crime in the World”
[caption id="attachment_63661" align="alignleft" width="3888"] Sandya Eknaligoda wife of disappeared journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda with with their two sons Sathyajith Sanjaya and Harith Danajaya[/caption] The wife of a disappeared journalist said of…
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“They’ve already taken my husband. I’m not going to succumb to fear.”
“They've already taken my husband. I'm not going to succumb to fear,” wife of disappeared Lao agriculture specialist tells audience. How does one suddenly disappear from a busy city street?…
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Do You Want to Know the Secret Behind Enforced Disappearances?
Every year, thousands of men, women and children go missing in dozens of countries around the world. In 2012, Amnesty International documented such cases in 31 countries. It’s a crime,…
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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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Lucky To Be Alive – Despite Paraguay’s Restrictive Abortion Laws
Mainumby is lucky to be alive. But unfortunately, this issue is far from being isolated to Paraguay – Chile and the Dominican Republic are two of a handful of countries…
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Syrian Human Rights Activist Mazen Darwish Released
[caption id="attachment_63121" align="aligncenter" width="604"] Abd al-Rahman Hamada, Hussein Gharir, Mazen Darwish, Hani al-Zitani and Mansour al-Omari[/caption] From a country where there is little reason to celebrate, here is some good…
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From US to Brazil: Say Their Names
[caption id="attachment_63141" align="aligncenter" width="584"] Demonstrators march through the Manguinhos favela to protest against police killings of blacks on August 22, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Every year, Brazil's police…
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A Vote To Protect the Human Rights of Sex Workers
Decriminalization of sex work means that sex workers are no longer breaking the law by carrying out sex work, and are not forced to live outside the law.