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Human rights violations in Iran are now as bad as at any time in the past 20 years, Amnesty International has said in a new report on the aftermath of last June’s presidential election. (Read the whole article here) Bellow you can watch the interview of Dr. Arash Hejazi who was the witness of Neda’s [...]

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.

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

With 100 days to go until the Beijing Olympics, Amnesty International today (30 April) launched the first in a series of four hard-hitting animated films highlighting human rights abuses linked to the Chinese authorities’ hosting of the Games, in particular the risks of peacefully protesting in China. Watch the first animation here: Also see: Human [...]

A while ago I wrote about Amnesty Internationals campaign against Torture, Unsubscribe-Me. Amnesty is now launching a series of short effective films in order to spread the human rights message. First add of these series is against waterboarding, a method that is used by the CIA in the “war against terror”. This is ‘The film [...]

2008 is the 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human rights.The Elders say that the government have been signing this declaration for the past 60 years but now you have the chance to sign it in Every Human Has Rights website. You can read a plain language version of the declaration in this homepage and [...]