amnesty international

Amnesty International is a global human rights organization that started in London in 1961. In May 2011, Amnesty International celebrated its 50th anniversary and continues its work for those who have been imprisoned solely for exercising their basic human rights.

Amnesty USA is currently working on a few select causes, such as maternal mortality, the death penalty, and torture. The organization is also well known for its letter writing campaigns, where members and supporters write letters on behalf of prisoners to international governments. Amnesty also has various online petitions and events to help promote the cause of human rights.

Amnesty USA does have its own blog, Human Rights Now, which covers human rights news and events. Amnesty UK does a good job of cataloging blogs and posts relevant to international human rights.

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• in Technology
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “amnesty international”

 

• Can Big Oil-Funded University Departments Remain Objective In Their Research?

  
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  The students and staff of Oxford University accuse research money donated by Shell of “[buying] legitimacy for its unconscionable activities globally.” The Anglo-Dutch oil company has a long history of human rights abuses and environmental damage. (Photo/infomatique via Flickr) “As Oxford alumni, staff and ...
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• Human Rights Watch urges Zambia to drop charges in sodomy case

  
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  The Human Rights Watch has urged authorities in Zambia to release two men who were arrested and charged on allegations of sodomy earlier in May. Zambian police arrested and charged a gay couple after the family of one of the men reported the relationship to authorities.  AFP reported that James Mwape, 20, and ...
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• Austerity in Greece strips workers of their rights

  
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  Last week, Greek teachers found out that their services were essential. No news there, of course – as the old poster had it “if you can read this, thank a teacher!” But the language of austerity is becoming more like George Orwell’s “newspeak” by the day. The Greek authorities defined teaching as an ...
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• Racist Amnesty International trying to Incite Terror Against Eritrea – Amanuel Biedemariam

  
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    Racist Amnesty International trying to Incite Terror Against Eritrea Amanuel Biedemariam   It has been a while since the international community has been assaulted by the criminal entity Amnesty International (AI) using human rights as excuse to demonize nations and leaders of specific nations targeted for ...
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• World Briefing | Africa: Eritrea: Report Tallies Repression

  
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  Eritrea’s government has jailed about 10,000 dissidents without charge or trial over the years, Amnesty International reported Thursday.        
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• Press Statement: Eritrea Rejects Amnesty International’s Wild Accusations

  
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    Press Statement Eritrea Rejects Amnesty Internationals Wild Accusations Eritrea rejects in the clearest of terms Amnesty Internationals wild accusations  that  it has "jailed at least 10,000  political prisoners." Amnestys    transparently    political     assault    on    Eritrea     ...
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• Lee, progressives hold hearing on drone policy

  
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  Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including the caucus’ Peace and Security Task Force Chair Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, held a hearing Wednesday on U.S. drone policy. At issue were lethal drones operations abroad, questions of due process, implications for executive and congressional ...
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• The Way Forward on Guantánamo-- Guest Post By Michelle Ringuette Of Amnesty International

  
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  President Obama and prominent members of Congress, including House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), have rather conveniently started blaming each other for the lack of progress toward closing the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. But their arguments are self-serving and political: ...
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• Photographs that put the world to rights

  
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  The winners and runners-up in the Amnesty Young Human Rights Photojournalism award 2013 Emily Drabble        
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• Young human rights reporter of the year 2013 - upper secondary category

  
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  Female genital mutilation One in three The uncertain future of female education in Afghanistan Competition supported by the Guardian Teacher Network Winner of Amnesty Internationals Young human rights reporter of the year competition upper secondary category: Zaahid Rahman, 15, Cranbrook School , Ilford ...
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• Young human rights reporter of the year 2013 - lower secondary category

  
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  I am tortured. I am starved. I am a woman Rings that bind us Albinism: Is everything black or white? Competition supported by the Guardian Teacher Network Winner of Amnesty Internationals Young human rights reporter of the year competition lower secondary category: Victoria Coleman, 14, Mayfield Grammar Gravesend ...
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• Young human rights reporter of the year 2013 - primary category

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Girls education improves the nation Being Gay Refugees rights Competition supported by the Guardian Teacher Network Winner of Amnesty Internationals Young human rights reporter of the year competition primary category: Liliana Newsam-Smith, 11, Rhodes Avenue primary school , London Girls education improves the ...
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• Young human rights reporter of the year 2013 - sixth-form category

  
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  Scars not only physical for North Koreas ghost prisoners Torture masked as tradition Poisoned for profit Competition supported by the Guardian Teacher Network Winner of Amnesty Internationals Young human rights reporter of the year competition sixth-form category: Holly Gomez, 17, Woodfarm High , East ...
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• Alistair Carmichael and Richard Hughes from Keane tell the Independent about their friendship

  
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  Yesterday’s Independent on Sunday carried an interview with Alistair Carmichael and Richard Hughes from Keane about the friendship they developed after they met on a trip with Amnesty  to try to prevent the execution of American Troy Davis in 2009. Sadly, Troy was executed in 2011. The article captures the bright ...
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• Glenn Greenwald’s predictable dishonesty over pro-terror Tweets of Mona Seif

  
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  In April it was announced that an Egyptian woman named Mona Seif was a finalist for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders – a prize established in 1993 to honour  those “who demonstrate exceptional courage in defending and promoting  human rights” .  A jury, composed of officials from ...
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• George W. Bush inconvenienced

  
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  Dubya in jail The problem for the ex-Decider, current fine arts painter is legal in nature: Will George W. Bush set foot in Europe again in his lifetime? A planned trip by Bush to speak at the Switzerland-based United Israel Appeal later this week has been canceled after several human rights groups called for ...
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• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (among others) CALLS for the ARREST of former PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH! TIME for EVERY PATRIOTIC AMERICAN to RESIGN from AI!

  
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  I have written about this before.  My position has not changed.  Any organization that calls for the arrest of a former President by a foreign government is not friendly to the USA!  Here is an article about how Amnesty International is seeking the ARREST of former President George W. Bush by Swiss ...
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• Hillel Neuer: Liar. Mona Seif: Hero.

  
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  Mona Seif, Tahrir Square: © Matthew Cassel,  justimage.org I know Mona Seif only slightly. She’s one of the few human rights activists in Egypt (or anywhere) whom almost everybody likes. She’s utterly unpretentious. As I wrote  a year ago, “Her complete immunity from the vagaries of ego is like a genetic ...
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• Belarus must stop the execution of man on death row

  
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  The Belarus authorities must stop the execution of a man who was this week sentenced to death for murder, Amnesty International said. The homeless man originally from Ukraine, who has not been named, is a jail inmate who was sentenced on 30 April for killing a fellow prisoner in Mahiliou, eastern Belarus. ...
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• OMalley signs death penalty repeal; Measure makes Maryland 18th state to end executions

  
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  With a stroke of a pen, Gov. Martin OMalley removed the death penalty from state law Thursday - making Maryland the 18th state in the nation to have abolished capital punishment. Surrounded by advocates who have fought for repeal year after year, the governor signed legislation setting life without parole as the ...
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