Speaking Out for Maternal Health in Detroit
On April 17, Detroit hosted the second stop of the maternal health speakers tour. In this post, Reuben Metreger, a law student at Wayne State University and Amnesty International state legislative...
View ArticleAfrican Activists' Struggle to Improve Maternal Health
Activist Juliette Compaoré says the MDG summit will have an impact in Burkina Faso © Amnesty International New UN statistics released last week show that world leaders are struggling to keep their...
View ArticleA Social Movement To Be Reckoned With In Africa
Fadel Barro, one of the leaders of Y’en a Marre (We’re Fed Up) movement and Oscibi Johann, one of the leaders of Burkina Faso’s Balai Citoyen (Citizens Broom) appear at a press conference in the...
View Article“I Didn’t Know You Could Get Pregnant From Having Sex.” Breaking Barriers to...
Young women hold hands in a shelter run by Nuns, these young women have courageously fled forced marriage or early and unwanted pregnancies. Ouagadougou. July 2014 Imagine not knowing that sex could...
View ArticleThe Devastating Impact of Child Marriage on Girls Around the World
October 11th marked the fifth year that the global community recognized International Day of the Girl Child, which the United Nations established to acknowledge girls’ rights and highlight the unique...
View ArticleGirls Should be Students, not Brides
By Naureen Shameem, Amnesty USA Women’s Human Rights Coordination Group What is it that enables you to make your life your own? Could you meaningfully choose your own life if your sphere of...
View ArticleWrite for Rights: A Chance to Change Our World
By Purva Khanapure, Amnesty USA Student Activist Coordinator, Central New Jersey A few weeks ago, I found myself stressed as I drowned in hours of homework. After deciding to take a break, I began to...
View ArticleMy Body, My Rights, My Call for Respect
By Katie Bellamy Mitchell, Identity and Discrimination Unit Intern This February 14th, I’ll spend Valentine’s Day with people I love. And when I say I love them — my friends and family — I mean I...
View Article6 reasons why we still need International Women’s Day
Malika ‘La Slammeuse’ photographed by Leila Alaoui in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on 13 January 2016, as part of the My Body My Rights campaign. By Shiromi Pinto Since 1975, 8 March has been a rallying...
View Article3,714,141 Thank Yous!
Amnesty supporters across the world wrote an astonishing 3.7 million letters, messages, emails, tweets and so much more as part of Write for Rights 2015, the global letter-writing marathon. From...
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