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20 years after the Tiananmen square protest and subsequent masacure we still don’t know what happened to this brave and defiant man, who stood alone to confront a column of tanks. Sign the Amnesty International’s campaign and ask the Chinese government to reveal the truth about Tianames square. If you still haven’t watched the Amazing [...]

Amnesty International has released another short anti-torture ad and asks everybody to join Amnesty to defy torture. The advertisement is really effective. So if you’re not a member of Amnesty International after watching the video think of Joining Amnesty international with as few as 2 Euro’s a month and help defying torture. Also read: They [...]

Finally we can call him president Obama. The first 100 days will not be easy for him as there are a lot of challenges on the way. Amnesty international in a campaign called “100 days”, is asking Obama to meet the challenge and take concrete steps to counter terror with justice in his first 100 [...]

Unfortunately the new year started with another crisis. Amnesty international UK is urging the UK Government to take a lead and call for an immediate, comprehensive humanitarian truce to allow desperately needed humanitarian assistance to the beleaguered civilian population, evacuation of the wounded and safe refuge for civilians wishing to flee the conflict zone. You [...]

Today is the 60th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights. All over the world people are celebrating this day. This video is made by Amnesty International UK with the message “You are powerful on protect the human”.

A follow up on the successful Amnesty International ad “signature”. Also see the first part of this ad.

These days you often hear the whispers of war again, and this time Iran is on the line. My Good friends in “Without Border Association” (Anjomane Bedoone Marz) have prepared a special issue against war which includes anti-war articles and poetry (in Persian). One of the poems which is written by a good friend of [...]

Beating peaceful protestors does not uphold the Olympics values Amnesty International (UK) has launched the second video of “Human Rights For China” campaign. They’ve used the viral launch to highlight the case of Huang Qi, a 45 years old cyber-dissident who runs the www.64tianwang.com website and has been detained since 10 June. Huang Qi was [...]

Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to apologise for six decades of human rights failure and to re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements. … Some of the most striking images of 2007 were of monks in Burma, lawyers in Pakistan, and women activists in Iran. See Amnesty International’s report. Related: Every Human has Rights

RickB has provided a list of agencies that provide aid for the Cyclon-ravaged nation. If you want to help you can choose one of the agencies to donate money to help the victims. Unfortunately the slow processing of visas is restricting the aid agencies to help. The UN has urged Burma to waive visa restrictions [...]