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As recently as July 2011, the U.S. government... →
Urge the U.S. State Department to stop authorizing the shipment of weapons, ammunition, and equipment that Egypt’s government could use to violently suppress human rights.
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Malawian president backs women in trousers after attacks navigatethestream:
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dynamicafrica:
Malawi’s president says he has ordered police to arrest anyone who attacks women for wearing trousers in public.
President Bingu wa Mutharika spoke out on national radio after several women were beaten and stripped on the street for wearing non-traditional dress.
Police...
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Turkey fails to deliver justice for murdered... →
The Turkish authorities have failed to address state officials’ alleged involvement in the killing of journalist and human rights activist Hrant Dink, Amnesty International said today, as the trial of 18 people accused of his murder drew to a close. Hrant Dink, a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, was killed on 19 January 2007 outside the offices of the Agos newspaper where he was the...
TAKE ACTION: Demand Iran Reject Anti-Human Rights... →
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Send an e-letter through United4Iran.
Your Excellency:
I write to express concern about a new bill before the Iranian Parliament that contravenes Iran’s international human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. I am especially concerned about provisions within the new penal code that violate the rights of Iranian citizens...
“Ken Clarke recently announced plans to end the right to compensation for...”
– Anastasia Richardson - Being behind bars doesn’t negate your humanity (via Huffington Post)
Iraq: A country in shambles
As a daily drumbeat of violence continues to reverberate across Iraq, people here continue to struggle to find some sense of normality, a task made increasingly difficult due to ongoing violence and the lack of both water and electricity.
According to a March 2011 report by the UN’s Inter-Agency Information and Analysis Unit, one in five Iraqi households use an unsafe source of ...
December 2011
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Invisible Children →
This organization is saving Child Soldiers that have been kidnapped from their homes in Uganda and forced to fight. Help stop this and please spread the word <3. Truly a great organization that really shows one person can make a difference.
Hunger in the News
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More Than 9 million In Sahel Face Food Crisis —Reuters
More than 9 million people in five countries in Africa’s Sahel region face food crisis next year, following low rainfall, poor harvests, high food prices, and a drop in remittances from migrants. WFP estimates between 5-7 million people are affected by what it called climate-related crisis and are in need of urgent assistance, with at...
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Libya: Cease Arbitrary Arrests, Abuse of Detainees →
Human Rights Watch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
(Tripoli) – The National Transitional Council (NTC), the de facto authority in most of Libya, should work to stop militia groups from making arbitrary arrests and abusing detainees in prisons and makeshift detention facilities across western Libya, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch visited 20 detention facilities in Tripoli and interviewed...
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“Another former inmate said that after he protested that guards were harassing a...”
– Report Details Wide Abuse in Los Angeles Jail System
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Nepal: Children for sale (VIDEO) →
With weak law enforcement, can foreigners adopting children from Nepal be sure that they are really orphans?
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Guinea: 4 Protesters Are Killed
Opposition supporters trying to join a march in Conakry were violently dispersed Tuesday, and at least four people were killed when police officers seized control of traffic circles and lobbed tear gas at people walking toward the meeting point, an opposition official said. Cellou Dalein Diallo, who lost last year’s election to President Alpha Condé, said that one body was dumped outside the...
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DO MORE: Write for human rights →
Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Network provides an effective and rapid response to urgent situations involving prisoners of conscience, detainees, and other individuals whose human rights are being imminently threatened. Members of the Urgent Action Network compose and send letters, e-mails, and faxes to government officials who have the power to stop the human rights violations.
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“I pledge to fight to end the death penalty in the United States because Troy...”
– Sign the Pledge to Carry Out Troy Davis’ Final Request: End the Death Penalty
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Saudi Arabia: Women to Vote, Join Shura Council →
But Reforms Exclude Other Forms of Discrimination
Human Rights Watch
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
(Amman) – King Abdullah’s announcement that women will be able to participate in municipal elections in 2015 and become members of the consultative Shura Council is a long overdue step toward greater participation of women in public life, Human Rights Watch said today. In his statement on September 25, 2011,...
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FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are... →
kateoplis:
From Wired:
At the Bureau’s training ground in Quantico, Virginia, agents are shown a chart contending that the more “devout” a Muslim, the more likely he is to be “violent.” Those destructive tendencies cannot be reversed, an FBI instructional presentation adds: “Any war against non-believers is justified” under Muslim law; a “moderating process cannot happen if the Koran continues...
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Global protests held in Troy Davis execution case →
Some 300 protest rallies were held worldwide Friday ahead of a last-ditch parole board hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose planned execution sparked an international movement.
Davis is set to be executed September 21 for the 1989 shooting death of a police officer in Savannah, Georgia, but his supporters say there is strong evidence supporting his claim of innocence.
On Thursday,...
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yogamatmale asked: Just fyi: There's a rally tomorrow in NYC to halt the execution of Troy Davis. I can't attend, unfortunately, but maybe other followers on here can? Petition signed :)
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AU Blames International Indifference for Somalia... →
An African Union report says many people are dying in famine-stricken Somalia because of international indifference to their plight. AU officials are urging the United Nations and the donor community to move quickly now that Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked militants are in retreat. African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping said Somalia’s famine is needlessly claiming lives that could have been saved...
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Libya: 19 Suffocated in Gaddafi Detention →
Human Rights Watch
September 9th, 2011
Mohamed Ahmed Ali, a 54-year-old teacher, said he was arrested on May 20, after he was overheard criticizing Gaddafi. “I was taken to the Chinese company. It was the worst possible treatment,” he said. “As soon as I arrived they used no words, they just started beating me.” According to Ali, the soldiers used whips and batons that inflicted an electric...
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Libya: Stop Arbitrary Arrests of Black Africans →
Human Rights Watch
Over the past week security forces newly operating in neighborhoods around the capital, staffed mostly by armed young men, have conducted mass arrests of migrant workers from other African countries such as Chad, Sudan, Niger, and Mali, holding them in makeshift detention facilities, including a school and a soccer club. Human Rights Watch visited two such facilities and one...
More Chinese Dissidents Appear to Disappear →
By Michael Wines
Published: September 2, 2011
Last Jan. 27, an Inner Mongolian rights activist, Govruud Huuchinhuu, suddenly vanished after leaving a hospital where she had undergone treatment for cancer. On Feb. 16, the Beijing human-rights lawyer Tang Jitian vanished after being forcibly taken away by police officers. On May 30, an ethnic Uighur, Ershidin Israel, vanished after being deported...
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