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TAKE ACTION!

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... * Visit www.amnestyusa.org/chinaolympics to learn more about the campaign goals, read the latest Al reports and download case sheets and petitions on behalf of prisoners of conscience. * Take action on behalf of Hu Jia by sending an e-mail to Wu Aiying ...

The DISSIDENT

Jul 01, 2008; Gibney, Alex ... Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney interviews former U.S. Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora about his behind-the-scenes challenge to the Bush administration's interrogation policies in the war on terror. ALEX GIBNEY: When you first began looking into the authorization of detainee abuse at ...

From Exile to Activist

Jul 01, 2008; LaJoie, Ron ... How AI Country Specialist Salem A. Salem moved from political opposition to human rights activism As a Libyan political activist in self-imposed exile during the early 1980s, Salem A. Salem got to know Sudanese students working against the regime of Sudan's President Gaafar Nimeiri ....

Pakistan's Courageous Lawyers

Jul 01, 2008; Hamilton, Caitlin ... The world watched as 1,500 Pakistani lawyers protested on February 9, 2008, outside the home of Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhury, the chief justice who was suspended by President Pervez Musharraf in 2007. The demonstration was part of a turbulent, courageous movement to defend the rule of law in ...

The Right of Return

Jul 01, 2008; Gerhart, Monika ... MUSIC FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AIUSA and musicians back displaced New Orleans public housing residents Nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated large swaths of the Gulf Coast, tens of thousands of the region's people remain displaced due to a dearth of affordable housing ....

Denounce Torture

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Stand against torture in June Amnesty International activists are gearing up for worldwide demonstrations in June, Torture Awareness Month, to demand that the U.S. government close Guantánamo and stop using torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Activists will also ...

Abolish the Death Penalty

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... AI urges Board of Pardons and Appeals to halt Davis execution In the wake of Georgia's March 17 Supreme Court ruling denying condemned prisoner Troy Davis a new trial or evidentiary hearing, Amnesty International is pressing the Georgia Board of Pardons and Appeals to keep its word that ...

Stop the Violence in Darfur

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... AIUSA urges full deployment of peacekeepers While the Sudanese Government continued to obstruct full deployment of United Nations peacekeepers, Amnesty International activists and allies took to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on April 13 to urge President Bush to keep his ...

AI's Beijing Olympics Campaign Goals

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 1 STOP EXECUTIONS: Publish official statistics regularly on the number of death sentences and executions in China. Lower the number of crimes punishable by death. China is currently the leading executioner in the world, according to Al's April report. 2 GUARANTEE FAIR TRIALS FOR ALL: End ...

Igniting Hope

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... AIUSA Annual General Meeting 2008 Speaking via satellite hookup from his flat in Birmingham. U.K., Moazzam Begg could not gauge the reaction of his audience in Washington, D.C. But the members who jammed the auditorium at Amnesty International USA's Annual General Meeting (AGM) hung on ...

Stop Violence Against Women

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Violence prevention bill gathers momentum The bipartisan International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) is gaining support among legislators across the country thanks to the efforts of AIUSA activists. I-VAWA was introduced in the House of Representatives on April 30, and 16 senators ...

Join AIUSA's Petition to New IHS Director

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... To mark the first anniversary of the publication of Maze of Injustice, Amnesty International's ground-breaking report documenting the human crisis of sexual violence against Native American and Alaska Native women, Amnesty members around the country are sending a flower petition to Robert ...

Darfur's Translator: Daoud Hari

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Daoud Hari left Darfur for North Africa and the Middle East as a young man in search of better wages and life experience. He returned home in 2003, in time to witness the government's scorched-earth tactics in Darfur and join a mass exodus of refugees to Chad. After serving as a translator for ...

Sudanese Journalist Sami al Hajj Released

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Sudanese journalist Sami al Hajj was released on May 1 from Guantánamo, after nearly six and a half years in U.S. detention. Now 39, Sami had been working as a cameraman for the television station Al Jazeera when he was arrested by Pakistani police in 2002, while on his way to cover the conflict ...

Individuals at Risk: Defending human rights one person at a time

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Police in Niger arrested newspaper editor Ibrahim Manzo Diallo in October 2007, accusing him of being a correspondent for a French broadcasting company banned by the government. Transferred to military custody, Diallo was held for three weeks before being charged with having links to rebel ...

AIUSA's Regional Conferences

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... AIUSA's regional conferences offer excellent educational workshops to hone your activist skills, panel discussions and speakers to motivate you, opportunities to network with fellow human rights activists in your area, and the chance to take part in the governance of the organization you care so ...

Displaced: AIUSA's CD-ROM

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... New Resources from AIUSA In September, AIUSA will launch Displaced, an educational and advocacy tool on CDROM that focuses on the human rights violations underlying the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur and eastern Chad, including the displacement of 2.6 million civilians. Individuals ...

Amnesty International's Annual Report 2008: The State of Human Rights in 150 Countries

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... ALSO NEW FROM AI Amnesty International released its annual human rights country report on May 28. The report summarizes issues in 150 countries that concerned Amnesty International during 2007. A key theme of ...

Safe Schools: Every Girl's Right

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Amnesty International documents violence against girls in school, locates the right to education in safe environments within international law, and demands that ...

Upcoming Events

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... June - July Guantánamo Cell Tour Launched in Miami on May 8; continues throughout June and July across the country. Check www.amnestyusa.org/torture for dates and cities. 6/01 Summer Postcard Action Through 08/08 6/26 World Day in Support of Victims of Torture AIUSA ...