By Simon Billenness, Business and Human Rights Thematic Specialist and Paz y Miño, Andean Countries Specialist Did you know Amnesty International USA is a long-time shareholder activist? This w...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/uncategorized/amnesty-international-shareholder-activist/
Margaret has played a key leadership role at AIUSA for the last several years, and she has worked in partnership with the Board, members, and staff to strengthen the organization in order to prot...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/amnesty/aiusa-appoints-new-executive-director-margaret-huang/
By Ali Barazi Adel Barazi was 28 years’ old when he was arrested on 11 August 2012. A group of armed uniformed men raided his family’s house and arrested Adel and three other family members a...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/where-is-my-brother-adel/
“Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.” — Ginetta Sagan This year we are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of The Ginetta Sagan Fund (GSF), an Amnesty Internat...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/amnesty/meet-the-2016-ginetta-sagan-award-winner-julienne-lusenge/
March 24, 2016 – AGM Road Trip Playlist 1 The road to Amnesty International USA’s Annual General Meeting and Human Rights Conference technically began in April of 2015, when the AIUSA Board ...
By Maya Delany, Amnesty USA Student Activist Coordinator for Western Massachusetts Last December, I arrived at my student group’s annual Write for Rights AmnesTEA event and was greeted by dim l...
By Meredith Reese, Missouri State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator (SDPAC) It had been twenty-two years, seven months, twenty-two days and countless hours since Reggie Clemons was sentenced t...
Teodora del Carmen Vásquez, one of 12 cases in Amnesty’s Write for Rights campaign this fall, has been in prison since 2008 because she suffered a still-birth. Teodora still has 23 more ye...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/americas/will-you-stand-with-teodora/
by Gerry Carolina Rivadeneira, 2015 Ladis Kristof Fellow March 8, 2011. This was the day my activist self was born. I remember it was a hot sunny day in the middle of Miami, Florida. I was stand...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/amnesty/i-choose-to-be-a-radical-unapologetic-human-rights-activist/
Yes, I’m angry – I’m very angry – but that’s not all I feel. It may have been anger that sparked my activism years ago, but it’s for the beautiful things I experience in the world tha...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/amnesty/is-your-activism-grounded-in-anger/