UPDATE: On December 10, 2015 Azerbaijani authorities released Leyla Yunus from jail on humanitarian grounds due to her deteriorating health conditions. Her jail sentence has been suspended and she has been placed on probation for 5 years. Despite being released from prison, Leyla still faces charges ...read more
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Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi was arrested on 5 May 2015, at her home by intelligence ministry officials. She is currently being detained in Evin Prison. Call on the Iranian government to immediately release Narges, and to guarantee the protection of all human rights activists in ...read more
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Join the Act on Climate Movement on April 11th in Quebec City!
The Act on Climate March will take to the streets in a peaceful march to call on Canada’s premiers and territorial leaders to act on climate. The activists will call on the federal and provincial leaders to reject tar sands and build ...read more
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On January 20th, Burmese Army soldiers raped and murdered two ethnic Kachin teachers. Maran Lu Ra (20 years old) and Tangbau Hkawn Nan Tsin (21 years old) were volunteering in the village of Shabuk-Kaunghka in northeastern Burma when they were attacked. The two teachers were from Wine Maw, a village ...read more
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The New Year brought threats and demands to human rights defender Blanca Nubia Díaz. She has been the target of attempted kidnappings and death threats because of her work fighting for an end to sexual violence in Colombia with the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (Movimiento de Victimas ...read more
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Write a letter and change a life! Join thousands of others in calling for freedom and justice for people whose basic human rights are under attack.
Amnesty International’s annual Write for Rights is a global letter writing campaign to help release prisoners of conscience, bring torturers to ...read more
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