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Dec 13 2014 9:22AM
Time Will Never Say, a prisoner's account

On 9 DEcember, International Coalition Against Violence in Iran-ICAVI organised the launch of Ramin Jahanbegloo's memoirs: "Time Will Never Say". IN 2007, Ramin was detained at the airport while bording a flight to Brussels. He was...

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I am the Programme Director for Women's Human Rights at Amnesty UK, and Chair of the Gender and Development Network.

The best advice I was ever given was to find the thing which makes me most angry, then work to end it. Violence against women in its myriad forms and the absence of rights for so many women around the world is what makes me angry - I've spent the last fifteen years doing what I can to change this

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Nov 25 2014 4:09PM
Paper is not enough to end violence against women

Today is International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and I am angry. Why? It feels as if we have spent the last fifty years – and beyond – fighting Hydra – the many-headed serpent. Each time its opponents cut off a head...

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Sep 3 2014 4:39PM
In harmony for human rights

Guest blogger Hyemin Yoo breaks for the Borders to judge a youth protest song competition As an Amnesty International student activist, I was invited by Amnesty Borders Group to attend (and judge!) the finals of the Voices for Change...

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Amnesty UK's Syria Country Coordinator on the Middle East and Gulf team.

Twitter: @Planet_Slater
Personal blog: www.laterwithslater.com