Archive for the ‘amnesty international’ Category

By Peter Drury, Colombia campaigner, Amnesty International, It’s 3:00am, it’s the centre of the village of San José de Apartadó, dominoes are slammed on a table, children play football, cycle around the square, play ludo. There’s a hum of voices and the sound of frogs pierces this tropical night. This all sounds fairly [...]

By Neil Boorman from AmnestyUK, The Secret Policeman’s Ball is back! Sunday 4th March at Radio City Music Hall, New York.With Coldplay, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Mumford & Sons, Russell Brand, Reggie Watts and more to come! Amnesty International is celebrating fifty years of supporting free speech. And we’re throwing a huge comedy show in New [...]

Par Jeremy Bloom, de l’équipe Amérique centrale, Amnesty International Il y a cinq jours, lundi 23 janvier, nous avons lancé une nouvelle opération de « saturation de fax » où nous demandions à nos membres et à nos sympathisants sur les réseaux sociaux du monde entier d’envoyer un fax à la procureure générale du Guatemala au nom de la [...]

By Jeremy Bloom Campaigner, Central America Team, Five days ago we started an exciting new faxjam action – calling on our members and social media supporters around the world to send a fax to the Attorney General of Guatemala on behalf of human rights defender Norma Cruz. Last night we spoke to Norma Cruz, the leader [...]

Por Esther Major, investigadora de Amnistía Internacional sobre Centroamérica La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) acaba de publicar los resultados de un exhaustivo estudio sobre el aborto inducido. Las conclusiones de dicho estudio confirman que miles de mujeres y niñas de todo el mundo mueren o sufren lesiones como consecuencia de que se les [...]

Par Zeke Johnson, responsable de la campagne Pas de sécurité sans droits humains à Amnesty International-États-Unis Tous les matins, je regarde par la fenêtre de mon salon pour voir le temps qu’il fait et contempler l’espace vide entre les gratte-ciel et autres immeubles où s’élevaient autrefois les tours jumelles du World Trade Center. Je me souviens alors [...]

By  Zeke Johnson, Security with Human Rights campaign director at Amnesty International USA. Every morning I look out my living room window to check the weather and see the empty space between skyscrapers and apartment buildings where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once stood. My memories of the fear, uncertainty and grief I felt [...]

Par Sauro Scarpelli, directeur de campagne de l’équipe Personnes en danger, à Amnesty International La défenseure des droits humains Norma Cruz a reçu 47 SMS de menaces de mort sur son téléphone mobile. Cette dirigeante de l’organisation de défense des droits des femmes Fundación Sobrevivientes fait l’objet de menaces au Guatemala simplement parce qu’elle apporte son [...]

By Esther Major, Central America researcher at Amnesty International. The World Health Organization (WHO) has just published the results of an extensive study of induced abortion.  Its findings confirm that thousands of women and girls around the world are dying or being harmed as a consequence of being denied access to safe and legal abortion services. The [...]

De Sauro Scarpelli, director de campaña en el Equipo de Individuos en Situación de Riesgo, Amnistía Internacional Norma Cruz es una defensora de derechos humanos que ha recibido 47 amenazas de muerte en mensajes de texto enviados a su teléfono móvil. Como dirigente de la organización guatemalteca de derechos de la mujer Fundación Sobrevivientes, recibe reiteradas [...]

By Sauro Scarpelli, Campaign Manager of the Individuals at Risk team, Amnesty International Norma Cruz is a human rights defender who received 47 death threats via text messages sent to her mobile phone. As the leader of women’s rights organization Survivors’ Foundation (Fundación Sobrevivientes) in Guatemala she receives repeated threats for simply doing her work to [...]

By Enikő Vincze*, Adrian Dohotaru* and Cristina Raţ*, on behalf of the Working Group of Civil Organizations (glOC), Cluj-Napoca, Romania The 19th of December 2011 was incredibly sunny for the smoggy city of Cluj-Napoca, up on the hills of central Romania. As people gathered near the Heroes’ Boulevard, picked up placards which they could resonate with, [...]

By Rosalind McKenna, Coordinator, Human Rights in Ireland Programme,  Amnesty International Ireland, Three years on from its adoption, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights needs five more countries to become parties to it before it comes into force. Rosalind McKenna, Amnesty International Ireland’s Human Rights in Ireland Coordinator, reflects [...]

By Drewery Dyke, Amnesty International’s Iran researcher To mark Iran’s National Student Day on 7th December, a letter from imprisoned student Majid Dorri has been smuggled out of Behbehan Prison in southern Iran. In it, he says: “16th of Azar [7 December] is a day when the university stood against oppression; it stood and gave martyrs; it [...]

By Chekib El-Khiari,  Former Prisoner of Conscience During my period of arbitrary detention, I spent nearly two years and two months in five prisons from the west of the kingdom to the east. It was a period full of rich experiences and valuable lessons not previously destined for me to live through or learn from. They [...]