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How Tunisia is Taking Big Steps Towards Ending Sexual Violence
By: Jihane Bergaoui, Amnesty International USA, Country Specialist for Morocco and the Western Sahara This past week I traveled to Tunisia to watch my colleagues from Amnesty Tunisia hand deliver…
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From Ferguson to Zimbabwe, Police must Protect Peaceful Freedom of Expression
Riot police in military gear in the streets, dispersing peaceful protestors gathered to address grievances with their government. Protestors threatened with weapons. Civil rights violated. Despite similarities to recent events in…
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Living with Ebola in Sierra Leone: “It feels like the whole country is in quarantine”
[caption id="attachment_54756" align="aligncenter" width="4683"] CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] By Solomon Sogbandi, Director of Amnesty International Sierra Leone. Since the first cases of Ebola were reported in Mach, life in Sierra…
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It’s been a Big Year for Uganda, For All the Wrong Reasons
By Emily McGranachan, Member of Amnesty International USA’s LGBT Human Rights Coordinating Group While pundits in the U.S. lament the political stalemate on Capitol Hill, legislatures elsewhere have had a banner…
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Tomorrow could mean life or death for Moses Akatugba
[caption id="attachment_53791" align="alignleft" width="300"] Take action now![/caption] Moses Akatugba was 16 years old when he was arrested by the Nigerian police in 2005. In the years that followed, he was…
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Torture, the Way of Life for the Nigerian Security Forces
An encounter with the Nigerian security forces can be a dangerous thing. The police and military routinely engage in beating people in their custody with whips, gun butts, machetes, batons,…
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Zone 9: The Growing Gulag in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian government's arrest of members of the Zone 9 blogging collective is outrageous. And it is just the tip of the iceberg of the crackdown on free expression.
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Burned, Beaten, and Electrocuted: One Survivor’s Shocking Story of Torture in Morocco
Instead of investigating accusations of torture, Moroccan authorities are prosecuting and jailing individuals for speaking out against it.
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Syria is a Dangerous Place for Journalists – But Here’s Why We Need Them There
News organizations have pulled back their reporters, and those that remain are being more cautious in their travels. But the consequences are significant.
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Burundi in Crisis: Government Pursues Campaign of Intimidation
There has been a crackdown on freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly and a sharp increase in politicized violence in Burundi linked to the ruling party.