Are Human Rights Abuses In Your Neighborhood?
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Headlines get everyone's attention. Afghan cities are under siege by Taliban. Terrors and starvation seem to rule the day in global struggles . Failures in leadership the world over result in suffering and pain.
But, right here in America, behind the notice of bloggers, news organizations and many well-meaning activists, violence born of prejudice against women, children, and groups attempting to improve our world, persists.
Amnesty International is devoted to reaching not only places in the headlines, but also beyond the hotspots and popular sympathies.
Death by taser. Violence against women. These are two human rights problems in America. Do you think they are too much overlooked?
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Purpose: defend and protect those who were made to suffer for their views.
Christopher Hitchens warns in a recent slate.com article that A.I. has "lost sight of its purpose."
Amnesty International has suspended one of its leaders for refusing to support a controversial endorsement by the organization of a former Taliban supporter.It's an old story, but it bears retelling. One day at the dawn of the 1960s, a lawyer named Peter Benenson was reading the newspaper on the London subway. He came across a small item reporting that two students from Portugal-then still a fascist dictatorship running a filthy empire in Africa-had been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raising a toast to liberty in a public place in Lisbon. After a short cogitation, he decided to take action, and his open letter concerning "prisoners of conscience" was published on the front page of the London Observer. You may never have heard or read about this micro-event or its macro consequences, but I am willing to wager that you have heard of Amnesty International, which was the great tree that sprouted from this acorn. Its "branches"-the innumerable local groups that sprang into existence-have been responsible for the release of many political prisoners and the public shaming of many of the regimes that hold them.
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Amnesty International is devoted to reaching where headlines and popular sympathies seldom go. That includes YOU if your dignity, life or wellbeing are threatened in any way!
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Violence Against Women
Did you know violence against women is top-of-the-mind in the US Congress? You can help!
Squidoo does not currently offer Amnesty International donations. It does, however, funnel donations to the Violence Policy Center.
The Violence Policy Center is a national tax-exempt educational organization working for a safer America through research, investigation, analysis, and advocacy. The VPC provides information to policymakers, journalists, organizations, advocates, and the
“Death by Taser to US citizens has happened 334 times since 2001: A.I.USA”
Human Rights at Home
A.I. USA is concerned that Tasers are being used as tools of routine force, rather than as weapons of last resort. Rigorous, independent, impartial study of their use and effects is urgently needed, according to A.I. USA.
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What Is Hope, Anyway?
Some say work for human rights is naive. What would happen if A.I.USA stopped believing in "Hope"?
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all --
And sweetest -- in the Gale -- is heard --
And sore must be the storm --
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm --
I've heard it in the chillest land --
And on the strangest Sea --
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb -- of Me.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ by Emily Dickinson
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The Amnesty International logo is a candle to symbolize hope, being held by barb wire. Barb wire, the symbol of pain where human rights should exist. In America, we are taught that human rights not only exist, but flourish.
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