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Amnesty International Memo to Congress on Foreign Policy Human Rights Priorities for Next for Congress
August 24, 2020 Dear Representative: On behalf of Amnesty International USA, I am writing to share our top foreign policy and human rights policy recommendations. The list of issues that…
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AIUSA letter to Assistant Secretary of State Tibor Nagy Urging Trump administration to Press Nigeria to protect children in Northeast Nigeria from abuses driven by Boko Haram insurgency and government’s counter insurgency
The Honorable Tibor Nagy Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of African Affairs U.S. Department of State C and 22nd Street Washington DC 20520 June 9, 2020 Dear Assistant Secretary Nagy,…
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Ethiopia: Zone 9
At the end of 2016 Amnesty International published a report titled Ethiopia Offline: Evidence of Social Media Blocking and Internet Censorship in Ethiopia. This report documented how social media and…
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Human Rights, Justice and Nigeria’s Security Sector: Will 2017 see the change that is needed?
[caption id="attachment_74149" align="alignleft" width="640"] Protestors gather in Nkpor, Onitsha on 30 May 2016, Nigeria.[/caption] By Adotei Akwei and Miho Mitobe In late November AI released a report on human rights…
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Education is a Human Right – That is, Unless you are Pregnant in Sierra Leone.
housands of pregnant girls are being excluded from school because of a rule issued by Sierra Leone’s government. In April of 2015, the Minister of Education, Science and Technology issued…
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Ongoing Crimes: Chemical Weapons & Crimes Against Humanity in Darfur
By Scott Edwards, Senior Adviser for Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Today, Amnesty International is releasing an expansive report on violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in Jebel Mara,…
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DatNav: How to Navigate Digital Data in Human Rights Research
From online videos of war crimes, to satellite images of rights violations in areas as reclusive as North Korea, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, we have access to…
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Ethiopia: Human Rights Leadership at the UN Security Council Requires Human Rights at Home
This is Ethiopia’s third stint on the UNSC and in a congratulatory message, Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Tedros Adhanom, said the election is a clear indication that the country has won…
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Liberation Day for Angola-Join Us in Demanding Freedom
One year ago today, the initial arrests were made of a group of activists in Angola's capital of Luanda. Dubbed the #Angola17, their crime was meeting to read a book…
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Heading the Wrong Way: The Ever Closing Political Space in Ethiopia
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a growing trend of evaporating political space. Non-governmental organizations are being heavily and often violently restricted, and newspapers, bloggers and other voices of dissent or criticism…