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Former Child Soldier Thanks Amnesty Members After Being Released From Guantánamo
Perhaps the one positive thing coming out of all [this] is to know there are so many good people in the world, like the members of Amnesty International, willing to…
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Bringing Human Rights Home: A Message From Amnesty USA Executive Director Steven W. Hawkins
For many activists, there is a transformative moment, which inspires a lifelong commitment to social advocacy. For me, that moment came inside the walls of Sing Sing prison.
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From Jail Cell to Board Chair: Ann Burroughs on the Urgent Action Network
For 40 years, the Urgent Action Network has served as a real-time alert mechanism of human rights abuses throughout the world as they are happening.
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How Amnesty’s Redesigned Urgent Action Network Will Strengthen Your Human Rights Impact
UAs continue to be one of the most powerful tools in organizing activists' response. This week, Amnesty USA is launching an updated version of the Urgent Action Network that will…
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2 Historical Traumas That Continue to Cast a Long Shadow Over Iran
The same lack of will to provide some measure of justice to the survivors of Indonesia's historical tragedy after so many decades sadly afflicts many other countries.
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WARNING: This Film Will Keep You Up at Night
Director Joshua Oppenheimer spent over eight years creating what is being called a documentary, but after seeing the film, you may feel that we don’t yet have words for what…
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6 Key Points for Military Intervention in Syria
The international community needs to take urgent steps to ease the crippling humanitarian situation inside the country.
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Sarah Shourd: What Everyone Ought to Know About Angola 3 and Solitary Confinement
Herman is not a dangerous criminal - he is a 71-year-old cancer patient who has survived an unthinkable nightmare. As his health fails, we have to fight for him -…
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Hudbay Minerals Loses Ruling Over Subsidiary’s Human Rights Violations
A legal ruling in Canada this week offered a new path for victims of human rights abuses to seek redress against corporations.
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Let’s Be Clear – Israel’s Long-Running Settlement Policy Constitutes a War Crime
All Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Israel’s long-running policy of settling civilians in occupied territory amounts to a war crime.