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Spanish ‘Guardia Civil’ Brutality Exposed

A woman stands alone in the middle of a city avenue, her hands up holding two placards. Thousands like her line the street shouting words of discontent, angry and disturbed by recent events. On the other side is a large police...
by Davide Castro
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Becoming Me.

Bhoomi (then Kumudu) and I studied together at an all-boys college in Colombo. We weren’t friends really, he was one year senior to me: but I knew of him (everyone did). While we practiced for the Shakespeare Drama Competiti...
by Senel Wanniarachchi
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Singapore’s First Riot In 40 Years

A riot erupted in central Singapore on Sunday December 8th, after an Indian worker was killed in a bus accident. Hundreds of rioters attacked 16 police cars and burned down an ambulance in the area called Little India. It wa...
by Mong Palatino
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Ethiopia

Write For Rights: Free Eskinder Nega

Amnesty International’s Write for Rights letter writing marathon is still going strong! So far, over 500,000 letters have been written on behalf of prisoners of conscience such as Miriam Lopez in Mexico, Yorm Bopha in Cam...
by Allison Midori Reilly
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Your Voice Has Power: Writing For Human Rights

Every year, Amnesty International holds a two-week event during this time of the year (it’s to coincide with Human Rights Day on Dec. 10) called Write for Rights. Also known as the Letter Writing Marathon, Amnesty chooses...
by Allison Midori Reilly
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North Korea: The Regime In The Balance.

A few weeks ago, reports emerged that North Korea had publicly executed around 80 people. Their crime; watching South Korean film and television shows. In a nation where public executions are not unknown, and punishments for mi...
by Simon Fraser
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Statelessness Should Never Be An Option

The news broke earlier this week that the Home Office backed, inevitably, by Teresa May, plans to “find a way of overturning international human rights conventions”, and seize the power to  confiscate the passports of susp...
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The Dubious Arrests And Mistreatment Of Basque Political Activists

Early in November, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) and the European Democratic Lawyers (EDL), published their “Motion regarding the situation of Lawyers and Human Rights defende...
by Sanne Jehoul
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Send Socks.

Mexico’s migration route, dubbed by some as ‘the most dangerous journey in the world’, holds that unique position as being both a utopian path to paradise, and a perilous obstacle course, littered with the dangers of rape...
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