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19 Feb 2011, 8:18 am by The Editors
(Photo by Mark Hirsch/Getty Images) Amnesty International USA is deeply concerned by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to limit collective bargaining for most public employees to wages. [read post]
14 Jul 2006, 7:52 pm
No one on any side can be summarily executed; Common Article Three provides a limited set of humanitarian guarantees. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 6:00 am by Administrator
Amnesty International also identifies a number of current factors that contribute to the heightened risk of violence against Aboriginal women: the marginalization of Aboriginal women, police failure to provide adequate protection, and racist motivations, or the expectation of impunity. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 8:46 am by Lisa Gormley
Having written previously on women’s rights and international law, in the context of supporting Amnesty International’s research and campaigning work on violence against women, it was a very different experience to write a Practitioners’ Guide for the International Commission of Jurists. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 8:46 am by Lisa Gormley
Having written previously on women’s rights and international law, in the context of supporting Amnesty International’s research and campaigning work on violence against women, it was a very different experience to write a Practitioners’ Guide for the International Commission of Jurists. [read post]
23 May 2012, 12:32 pm by Steve Vladeck
Amnesty International, and whether the FISA Amendments Act violates the Fourth Amendment. [read post]
17 Aug 2019, 11:54 am
What is potentially true for Amnesty International is also true for government-organized NGOs, international friendship associations, clubs and associations established on one’s national territory by citizens of another country, and generally speaking any entity that produces something. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 12:50 pm by Bryna Subherwal
Repressive legislation continues to be used throughout Indonesia to limit freedom of expression, in violation of articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). [read post]
1 Mar 2008, 4:06 pm
The US opposed this decision, which indeed flies in the face of the "illegal but tolerated" opposition group Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation's estimate that there are currently 230 political prisoners in Cuba and Amnesty International's count of 58 prisoners of conscience or more. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 7:52 am by Dave Maass
We have since learned the Army separately restricted Manning’s access to at least two other packets of writing, including printouts from Twitter and posts from Vice, PinkNews, The Independent, BoingBoing, Fight for the Future, ACLU, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, all of which related to a podcast Manning recorded with Amnesty International. [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 12:40 pm by Manny Marotta
In Central Asia, Amnesty International reports massive expansion of police powers through emergency powers granted during the pandemic. [read post]
16 May 2013, 7:45 am by EEM
Previously, the zone was limited to islands off the northern coast of Australia (see map). [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 7:45 am by EEM
Posts often focus on - but are not limited to - refugee/asylum issues in Germany and Europe. [read post]
Amnesty International also urged Zambia to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at the abolition of the death penalty. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 6:08 pm by Marco Rossi
Participants face a 27.5 percent penalty, but taxpayers in limited situations can qualify for a 5 percent penalty. [read post]
20 Oct 2015, 11:07 pm
When he was arrested in 2005, he could only speak limited English. [read post]
19 May 2011, 10:51 am by Geoffrey Mock
  In February, Amnesty International documented several cases of health professionals being physically attacked by security forces in Manama on Feb. 17. [read post]