UN: Mission in Panjshir Valley confirms 100,000 di displaced.

M2 Presswire;  September 6, 1999 ;     552 words ......Mission in Panjshir Valley confirms 100,000 displaced (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...that up to 100,000 persons have been displaced by recent fighting in the area. Originally...non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the displaced themselves, the mission found the figures...

Rejuvenation, strategy and poetry for hundreds of AIUSA activists

Amnesty International;  July 1, 2007 ;     350 words ......than 850 people converged on Milwaukee for AIUSA's Annual General Meeting (AGM) during the...on building grassroots momentum within AIUSA and prepared for significant organizational...Mexican investigative journalist who received AIUSA's 2007 Ginetta Sagan Award. Cache's 2004...

RIGHTS-TURKEY: DISPLACED BY KURDISH WAR, VILLAGERS' RETURNBLOCKED

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  October 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ......majority of them ethnic Kurds, remain displaced throughout Turkey as a result of the...insurgency, says the 78-page document, Displaced and Disregarded. While the government...located far from the lands owned by the displaced before they were forced to flee. The...

AIUSA Reiterates Death Penalty Must Be Abolished as 1000th U.S. Execution...

U.S. Newswire;  November 22, 2005 ;     462 words ......execution that Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) and other organizations believe will be...number of executions in the United States. AIUSA is making the following experts available...Dr. William Schulz, executive director, AIUSA has been the head of Amnesty International...

AIUSA 2008 Annual General Meeting

Amnesty International;  January 1, 2007 ;     100 words ......the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. AIUSA is planning an inspirational commemoration...AGM), from April 25-28 in Washington, D.C. AIUSA members have much to celebrate and much...for the 2008 Annual General Meeting: www.aiusa.org/agm

RIGHTS-LIBERIA: CONDITION OF THE DISPLACED 'TOO PAINFUL TO IGNORE'

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  April 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ......MONROVIA, Apr. 1 (IPS) -- The images of the displaced in central Liberia and western suburbs...told IPS this week. The condition of the displaced people is desperate and deplorable beyond...survivors. Kortu says the plight of the displaced, especially those who escaped from the...

AIUSA and CCR Urge President Bush to Close Guantanamo Bay on 5th...

U.S. Newswire;  January 8, 2007 ;     238 words ......POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Sharon Singh of AIUSA, +1-202-544-0200, ext. 289; or Mahdis Keshavarz...Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) and the Center forConstitutional Rights...the U.S. Supreme Court. Speakers include AIUSA Executive Director Larry Cox, CCR Staff...

CONFLICT-COLOMBIA: DISPLACED DEMAND ROLE IN PEACE PROCESS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ......07-31-1998 BOGOTA, Jul. 30 (IPS) -- Colombians displaced by the armed conflict -- more than one...Codhes) said the "voluntary return of the displaced to their homes" will be inextricably...factions." Codhes insists that the return of displaced populations would contribute to "generating...

U.N. Reports 50 Million Displaced People

AP Online;  July 20, 2004 ;     525 words ......AP Online 07-20-2004 Dateline: GENEVA Displaced people from the Darfur region in Sudan...under a tree in the West-Darfur Internal Displaced People camp of Sisi, in this April 30...N.'s interagency campaign to help the displaced. But there is no global registration...

AIUSA Reiterates Death Penalty Must Be Abolished as Thousandth U.S....

U.S. Newswire;  November 28, 2005 ;     465 words ......execution that Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) and other organizations believe will be...number of executions in the United States. AIUSA is making the following experts available...Dr. William Schulz, Executive Director, AIUSA has been the head of Amnesty International...

Brookings-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement Releases Report on the...

U.S. Newswire;  October 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ......are the one million or more forcibly displaced persons who remain within the borders...estimated 600,000 to 800,000 persons are displaced in the North and an estimated 300,000...A new 55-page study, The Internally Displaced People of Iraq, published by the Brookings...

Protesters from Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) pose by a sign...

Getty Images;  June 25, 2008 ;     78 words ......RICHARDS Getty Images 06-25-2008 Protesters from Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) pose by a sign... Full Size JPG (944 KB) Protesters from Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) pose by a sign June 25 2008 near a life-size Guantanamo prison cell replica...

AIUSA and CCR Urge President Bush to Close Guantanamo Bay on 5th...

PR Newswire;  January 8, 2007 ;     243 words ......Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) and the Center for Constitutional Rights...the U.S. Supreme Court. Speakers include AIUSA Executive Director Larry Cox, CCR Staff...Ratner, CCR President, and Jumana Musa, AIUSA Advocacy Director for Domestic Human Rights...

A sign hung by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) June 25 2008...

Getty Images;  June 25, 2008 ;     75 words ......RICHARDS Getty Images 06-25-2008 A sign hung by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) June 25 2008... Full Size JPG (771 KB) A sign hung by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) June 25 2008 near a life-size Guantanamo prison cell replica placed on the...

U.S. Executed 1,000, As 70 Nations Abolished Death Penalty; AIUSA Says...

U.S. Newswire;  November 29, 2005 ;     471 words ......reinstated in 1976, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), along with a broad spectrum of human...William F. Schulz, executive director, AIUSA. "Where else has the government been allowed...loved them all deserve justice. However, AIUSA does not believe that justice and the death...