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May 6, 2013

Close Guantanamo Now

It's been 10 years since detainees first arrived at Guantanamo. Since then, we’ve seen shocking human rights abuses there and around the world.

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April 24, 2012

Rural leaders and farmers in a remote area of Amazonas state, northern Brazil, are facing death threats and attacks from illegal loggers and land-grabbers (grileiros) encroaching upon their lands....

April 17, 2012

Human rights defenders working on behalf of trade unionist Marcelino Coache, and his family, continue to be threatened and intimidated in Oaxaca, Mexico since 2009.

April 17, 2012

Mohammed Saleh al-Bajady has apparently been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment followed by a travel ban. He is a prisoner of conscience detained in part for his human rights activism.

April 5, 2012

Yong Vui Kong’s third appeal application against his death sentence was rejected on 4 April. Only an act of clemency from the President of Singapore can stop his execution from going ahead.