Human Rights Now » Naureen Shah

I just ate an apple. Later, I’ll try to resist the temptation to munch on crackers. I keep hearing about the importance of a “clean diet.” I think that means no crackers. Maybe carrots inst...

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/what-if-eating-caused-you-excruciating-pain-this-mans-impossible-choice/

Will Guantánamo still be open a decade from now? What about in 2050, a half century after it opened? Years from now, will we still be protesting—every January 11-- the grim anniversary of this...

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/will-guantanamo-still-be-open-in-2050/

To be a Muslim in America right now is to fear that your best days — your most ordinary days — are behind you. Anti-Muslim hate and fear-mongering is going mainstream, and the future is a sta...

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/to-be-a-muslim-in-america-right-now/

For years, Amnesty International has witnessed public figures repeating misconceptions and inaccuracies about waterboarding.  This American debate on torture has mostly got it wrong – here are...

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/waterboarding-is-torture-3-things-you-need-to-know/

Yesterday, President Obama visited a U.S. mosque for the first time in his presidency. He quoted from the Islamic holy book, the Quran. And he unequivocally denounced anti-Muslim hate.

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/this-is-why-obamas-speech-on-american-muslims-matters/

Can you imagine needing to write? What if you needed to write so badly that’d you use toothpaste instead of a pen, a Styrofoam cup instead of paper, if that’s all you had? What would it be li...

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/music-and-the-arts/guantanamos-poetry-14-years-too-many/

Stranger still is being here at Guantanamo as the U.S. reels from attacks in San Bernardino and Paris – attacks that pundits are using to whip the country into a fever. The demagogues seize on ...

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/the-beauty-and-ugliness-of-guantanamo/

Mass surveillance is not only a violation of our rights to privacy. It is a threat to Amnesty International’s research and global activism.

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/uncategorized/unlawful-surveillance-threatens-our-activism-heres-how-we-can-fight-back/

I see this poster every day in the main hallway of our Amnesty International office: it depicts the Statue of Liberty and reads: “The America I believe in leads the world on human rights.” It...

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/the-america-i-believe-in-3-hopes-for-this-july-4th/

Yesterday, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal informed Amnesty International that British intelligence agency GCHQ had spied on the human rights organization by intercepting and accessi...

https://blog.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/10-questions-about-the-uk-spying-on-amnesty-international/