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What Do O.J. Simpson and Attorney General Michael Mukasey Have in Common?
[caption id="attachment_478" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="(c) Getty Images"][/caption] Consider the following two statements: 1.“I didn’t want to hurt anyone. I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong.” [There is no evidence…
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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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A Sad Anniversary
Remember these men from Indonesia? Monday was the four year anniversary of their arrest, and Amnesty is encouraging people to blitz the Indonesian government with emails on their behalf. Filep…
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The Real Story Behind Abu Ghraib
Standard Operating Procedure, directed by Errol Morris, tells the dark story behind the infamous photographs of detainee abuse and humiliation that came out of Abu Ghraib in 2004. The images…
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Can a Women's Rights Treaty Make any Difference?
Earlier this week, President-elect Obama made a commitment to push for Senate ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This treaty has been…
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A Stronger US Stance Against Mass Atrocities?
With every day that passes, grave human rights violations continue in places like Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma. President-elect Barack Obama’s recent personnel decisions have fostered speculations…
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Parliamentarians Debate Women's Rights
[caption id="attachment_420" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="© Jeronimus van Pelt; Former ‘Comfort Women’ lobby for parliamentary resolutions against violence in the Netherlands"][/caption] The Inter-Parliamentary Union is bringing together members of parliament from…
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Is it worth the risk, Maryland?
When testifying before state lawmakers in 2007, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley asked “Can the death penalty ever be justified as public policy when it inherently necessitates the occasional taking of…
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AIDS is a Human Rights Issue
Today is twenthieth anniversary of the first World AIDS Day, established to commemorate those who have died of the disease and marshal attention to address the epidemic. The World AIDS Campaign has declared…
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Rally Echoes Congolese Plea for Help
[caption id="attachment_405" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Amnesty International activists urge the US government to support the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC. White House, November 23 (c) Msia Clark"][/caption] Rallying in front…
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Washington Execution Stayed
Two separate courts (a County Superior court and a Federal District court) have issued stays of execution for Darold Stenson, who was scheduled to be put to death by the…