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Detention and Torture: Just Another Day in the Life of a Human Rights Defender in China
This post is part of our Write for Rights series. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Mao Hengfeng"][/caption] Mao Hengfeng has been repeatedly detained and tortured for her advocacy on behalf of…
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Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers Endorsed in Geneva
On Tuesday, November 9, 58 private security companies -- including Xe (formerly Blackwater) -- signed an International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers. The Code seeks to address the…
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Amnesty International & Gael García Bernal Release Immigration Films
Amnesty International and Gael García Bernal launch films on migrants in Mexico.
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Help a student from Gaza not miss another day of school
Want to help a student who has worked hard both academically and in his community? Someone who has gone through the madness of applying and being accepted at a university…
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Fighting Crime Without the Death Penalty
“Bizarre.” This was the answer given by Former Detective Superintendent Bob Denmark of Lancashire, England when asked what people in the UK thought about the execution of Teresa Lewis. “[People] are…
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Contemporary Slavery in Brazil a Sad Reality
After responding to an anonymous claim filed last August, the Federal Police identified 14 individuals held as slaves at a farm in Brazil’s western state of Mato Grosso do Sul.…
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Campaign of Repression Against Union Organizing in Bangladesh
Labor groups and human rights organizations have denounced the harassment of worker's rights protesters in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. This harassment has escalated in the past few days to…
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Digging Deeper Into Naomi Campbell’s "Dirty Little Stones"
Getting past the hype of the celebrity laden Charles Taylor trial to the real issue: blood diamonds and human rights abuses in Africa.
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Story of Two Women: Two Death Sentences in Iran
This past week Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have been highlighting the plight of two women sentenced to death in Iran. Both of them have suffered incredible injustices,…
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Combat Exploitative Child Labor with Human Rights
On June 8, 2010, I attended the "Working Together to Combat Child Labor" conference in Washington, DC. The meeting was organized by the US Departments of State and Labor to convene high-level U.S.…
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Tissa is finally free!
The Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam (often referred to as "Tissa") is finally free! As I wrote on this site earlier, Tissa had been sentenced last year to 20 years' hard labor,…
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Free Our Midwives!
[caption id="attachment_10218" align="alignleft" width="242" caption="Older daughter Mirabelle holding Jadzia just minutes after a home birth. "][/caption] Normally I write on this blog about human rights issues in South Asia. But,…