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Girls Should be Students, not Brides
Globally, at least 25,000 children are married every day. 1 in 9 marry before the age of 15. Although the prevalence of child marriage worldwide has received more coverage in…
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Letter from Shawkan Photojournalist Imprisoned in Egypt
Amnesty International has collected nearly 90,000 signatures worldwide in a petition calling for Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid’s release ahead of his first court session, scheduled for December 12 at…
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Every Girl Deserves an Education—Make Sure She Can Get One!
This April, the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology in Sierra Leone issued a statement banning girls from mainstream education. As a result, thousands of pregnant girls are excluded from…
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Angola’s United Nations Fail
If Angola intends as it has stated in the past, to be a leader both within the continent and on the world stage, it must start by addressing its own…
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You Saved My Life. Now Let’s Help Others
By Moses Akatugba My name is Moses Akatugba. For 10 years I was on death row in Nigeria. I was arrested, tortured and imprisoned when I was just 16 years…
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The Devastating Impact of Child Marriage on Girls Around the World
Child marriage — when an individual is married before the age of 18 — impacts 15 million girls each year, or 41,000 girls every day in lower-income countries. In other…
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Dying for Freedom: Activist on Hunger Strike in Angola
There has been a marked increase in repression of freedom of expression, association and assembly in Angola in recent years. Amnesty has documented arrests and trials that violate international justice…
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Angola: Where Peaceful Protest is a Crime
Police and security forces in Angola use the courts, dogs, batons, torture, and murder to attack citizens exercising rights guaranteed in their constitution and under international law. Journalist Rafael Marques…
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“I Didn’t Know You Could Get Pregnant From Having Sex.” Breaking Barriers to Women’s Rights in Burkina Faso
[caption id="attachment_62966" align="aligncenter" width="2000"] Young women hold hands in a shelter run by Nuns, these young women have courageously fled forced marriage or early and unwanted pregnancies. Ouagadougou. July 2014[/caption]…
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Chad and the Arc of Justice: The Trial of Hissène Habré
[caption id="attachment_62886" align="aligncenter" width="3040"] Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre is escorted by prison guards into the courtroom for the first proceedings of his trial by the Extraordinary African Chambers in…