Amnesty International 24 January 2011 Tunisia must act decisively to break with Ben Ali’s legacy of abuse Amnesty International has today called on the Tunisian authorities to fundamentally overhaul the country’s repressive security apparatus and justice system as part of a human rights action plan to be presented to the new government. “This is a [...]
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Tunisia must act decisively to break with Ben Ali’s legacy of abuse
Posted in AI press release, Tunisia on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Carl Wilkens speaks in Portland
Posted in Events, Group 48, Rwanda, tagged Carl Wilkens on January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, February 9 at 7:00 PM Portland First United Methodist Church 1838 Southwest Jefferson Street, Portland Free admission (suggested donation $10) Organized by Oregon Holocaust Resource Center As a humanitarian aid worker, Carl Wilkens moved his young family to Rwanda in the spring of 1990. When the genocide was launched in April 1994, Carl refused [...]
Group 48 adopts Moroccan prisoner of conscience
Posted in Morocco, tagged Chekib El-Khiari, online action on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For many years, Group 48 focuses its work in several regions of the world: Central America, Central Africa, China, Indonesia, and Sudan (Darfur). A few months ago, one of our group founders, Jane Kristof pointed out that we haven’t worked on a prisoner of conscience (POC) for a long time. Taking her words to heart, [...]
Cell phones fueled Africa’s “World War”
Posted in Democratic Republic of Congo, Legislative Action, tagged online action on April 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A small window of opportunity just opened this week that could finally break the cycle of weapons freely flowing in to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and conflict minerals irresponsibly being mined out. Right now, the House of Representatives is weighing on a piece of legislation that would make it easier to identify imports [...]
Stop Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Posted in Africa, Uganda, tagged LGBT, online action on January 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A proposed bill storming through Uganda’s parliament is one of the most severe pieces of anti-homosexuality legislation in the entire world! If it passes, it would establish an alarming precedent that would virtually annihilate the human rights of Uganda’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population. In October 2009, Parliamentarian David Bahati introduced draconian legislation [...]
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