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President Obama and Congress: Respect Human Rights and Counter Terror With Justice President Obama and a number of members of Congress have resisted full accountability for torture, and have endorsed indefinite detention and unfair military commissions. There is an alternative: call on President Obama and Congress to respect human rights.  |
Restore the Rule of Law at Guantanamo! Call the Obama administration on its recent backsliding in rejecting the rule of law and ask for a new kind of task force - a commission of independent, bipartisan experts to examine, report, and come to their own informed conclusions about the policies and actions related to the detention, treatment, and transfer of Guantanamo detainees. |
Zimbabwe: Justice for Women; Justice Delayed is Justice Denied Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu continue to live under the threat of trial and imprisonment since their arrest on charges of disturbing the peace on October 16, 2008. On that day, hundreds of WOZA members demonstrated in Bulawayo in support of the government declaring a national emergency and distributing food aid to the nation's hungry citizens. |
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Immediate and Unconditional Release of Aung San Suu KyiOn May 14, 2009, Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy, and two of her assistants were taken from her home to Insein Prison following an incident in which an American man allegedly swam across a lake to her house and stayed there for two days. Suu Kyi was subsequently put on trial for breaching the terms of her house arrest, and was sentenced to an additional 18 months under house arrest. » Take action to Immediate and Unconditional Release of Aung San Suu Kyi » Download the actionImmediate and Unconditional Release of Aung San Suu Kyi in PDF format » Download the actionImmediate and Unconditional Release of Aung San Suu Kyi in MS WORD format » Download the actionImmediate and Unconditional Release of Aung San Suu Kyi in RTF format | |
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Defend online freedom of expression in ChinaAmnesty International is concerned that Chinese Internet service providing companies, including Baidu, Sina and Sohu, are complying with Chinese government requests and demands to censor content online and otherwise repress the rights to freedom of expression and privacy. Call on these companies to ensure the Internet fulfills its potential to empower and educate and to create global communities. | |
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Microsoft: Don't Assist Human Rights Abuses!Amnesty International is concerned about the ways Microsoft may be aiding the repression of freedom to information and expression in China. According to recent reports, Microsoft's search engine blocks searches under key words such as "freedom", "democracy", "human rights", "Falun Gong", and "demonstration", among others. Users of Microsoft Spaces are also prohibited from using these and other words on the weblogs they create. | |
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Release newspaper reporter Ebrima B. Manneh and protect freedom of expression in The GambiaEbrima B. Manneh was arrested in July 2006 at the offices of the newspaper Daily Observer by plainclothes officers, thought to have been from the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). He has been held in incommunicado detention without charge or trial for over two years. Please call on Gambian authorities to release Ebrima Manneh, a prisoner of conscience. | |
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Pressure Indonesian President to Release Papuan Prisoners of ConscienceFor peacefully raising a flag at an annual Indonesian ceremony, Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage may spend the next decade or more in prison. Amnesty International considers Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage to be prisoners of conscience who have been detained for the peaceful and legitimate exercise of their right to freedom of expression. Please urge the President of Indonesia to bring about the immediate and unconditional release of Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage. | |
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Stop Child Offender Executions in IranIran is one of the only countries in the world that still executes children and child offenders. At least 15 child offenders have been executed in Iran in the last two years. On October 16, 2008, The Government of Iran announced an end to this shameful practice, but on October 18 Iran clarified that this directive would not apply to child offenders sentenced to qesas or retribution. The vast majority of the more than 130 juveniles sentenced to death in Iran still face execution. | |
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Algeria: Detention without trial – the case of Malik Medjnoun and Abdelhakim ChenouiMalik Medjnoun and Abdelhakim Chenoui were taken into custody in September 1999, after which they were held in secret, unacknowledged detention, respectively for seven and six months. Both allege that they were tortured during this period of enforced disappearance. | |
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Dear President Obama: Be a Voice for DarfurAmnesty International USA, in partnership with the Save Darfur Coalition, is calling on President Barack Obama to turn his promises on Darfur into concrete action. We're collecting one million signatures to deliver to the White House to reinforce the need for Darfur to be a top-priority issue on the Obama administration agenda. | |
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Thank New Mexico Leaders for Supporting AbolitionOn Wednesday, March 18, 2009, Governor Bill Richardson signed into law a bill to repeal the death penalty in New Mexico. With this bill, sponsored by Representative Gail Chasey, New Mexico has now become only the 2nd state in over 30 years to legislatively abolish the death penalty, and brings to 15 the number of states in the U.S. that are now death penalty free! Write to Gov. Richardson and Rep. Chasey today and thank them for their unprecedented leadership. | |
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Make the Full Deployment of UNAMID a RealityOn January 1, 2008, a UN-African Union peacekeeping force (UNAMID) was deployed to Darfur with the mandate of protecting civilians. Many countries pledged troops and military hardware; but more than a year since its initial deployment, UNAMID remains severely under-resourced and just over 60% deployed. Urge key international actors to fulfill their pledges and do everything in their capacity to ensure that UNAMID can successfully protect the people of Darfur. | |
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Millions of civilians deprived of aid by the Sudanese governmentOn March 4, 2009, the government of Sudan expelled and suspended the operations of humanitarian aid organizations that provide the bulk of life-saving aid, including food, water, and medicine to millions of vulnerable people in Darfur and across Sudan. This apparently retaliatory action came soon after a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. » Take action to Millions of civilians deprived of aid by the Sudanese government » Download the actionMillions of civilians deprived of aid by the Sudanese government in PDF format » Download the actionMillions of civilians deprived of aid by the Sudanese government in MS WORD format » Download the actionMillions of civilians deprived of aid by the Sudanese government in RTF format | |
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Stop Executions in BelarusBelarus is the last country in Europe and in the former Soviet Union that still carries out executions. Amnesty International estimates that as many as 400 people may have been executed since Belarus gained its independence in 1991. At least four people were executed and one more sentenced to death in 2008. Sign the appeal to ask President Lukashenka to declare an immediate moratorium on executions. | |
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Please Support the Global Online Freedom Act, H.R. 2271Ask your Representative to support H.R. 2271, the Global Online Freedom Act, which would prevent U.S. companies from carrying out or facilitating the suppression of online speech in repressive countries. | |
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Call on Chevron to address the human rights of Amazon communitiesFor over four decades, Indigenous communities have witnessed multinational oil companies cut through their ancestral lands in search of the country's vast petroleum resources. According to the report "Amazon Crude", Texaco alone was responsible for dumping 19 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the region contaminating the drinking water of Ecuador's Amazon communities. | |
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USA: Help Hold Private Military and Security Contractors Accountable for Human Rights AbusesEmployees and individual contractors of US government contracted companies are alleged to have abused, tortured and killed people in areas including Iraq and Afghanistan, but not a single one has been brought to justice. Tell Congress to demand accountability of contractors in the "war on terror." | |
