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Sarah Shourd: What Everyone Ought to Know About Angola 3 and Solitary Confinement 26 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
Sarah Shourd was one of three U.S. hikers arrested by Iran in 2009 on espionage charges. Shourd was held in solitary confinement for 410 days (Photo Credit: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images). Until ...
Hudbay Minerals Loses Ruling Over Subsidiary’s Human Rights Violations 23 Aug 2013 | 11:12 pm
Angelica Choc during a press conference announcing a legal suit against Canadian mining company Hudbay Minerals for the murder of her husband Adolfo Ich (pictured) in Guatemala City (Photo Credit: Jam...
Is U.S. Aid Complicit in Egyptian Abuses? 23 Aug 2013 | 09:43 pm
President Barack Obama during his statement on Egypt in Chilmark, Massachusetts on August 15, 2013 (Photo Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images). President Obama, it’s time to stop the export of small ...
Enough Hand-Wringing: The World Needs to Take Action on Syria 22 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
The U.N. chemical weapons investigation team arrives in Damascus on August 18, 2013 (Photo Credit: Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images). By Cilina Nasser, Amnesty International’s researcher on Syria This...
#FreedomHack: From the Ground in Mexico City 22 Aug 2013 | 05:48 pm
Kathryn Striffolino (center) at #Freedomhack in Mexico City (Photo Credit: Amnesty International). This is the first post of a series: “Technology for Human Rights Protection” with new entries being ...
Go On the Ground with Amnesty Researchers in Egypt 21 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
Hundreds of Egyptians from different political parties and religions march towards St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasya to denounce sectarian violence and the Egyptian government on April 9...
Bradley Manning Verdict: Hysteria Over Leakers, Impunity for Human Rights Violators 21 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning arrives at a U.S. military court facility to hear his sentence in his trial at Fort Meade, Maryland on August 21, 2013 (Photo Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ...
5 Steps That Offer the Best Hope For Egypt’s Future 16 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
A supporter of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi stands among the bodies of dead pro-Morsi protesters on the floor of the Rabaa al-Adaweya Medical Centre in Cairo, Egypt (Photo Credit: Ed Gile...
Inside the DRC’s Artisinal Mining Industry 16 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
People carry bags of cassiterite (tin ore), coltan, which is used in mobile telephones and computers, and manganese down a hill from the Mudere mine near Rubaya (Photo Credit: Junior D. Kannah/AFP/Get...
Let’s Be Clear – Israel’s Long-Running Settlement Policy Constitutes a War Crime 15 Aug 2013 | 12:25 am
An ‘Israeli only’ by-pass road that links Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, sitting below an Israeli settlement outside of Jerusalem (Photo Credit: Edith Garwood). ALL Israeli settlement...
