NEW: On WRFI's Human Rights Show, AIUSA executive director Paul O'Brien talks about human rights issues around the world including challenges as authoritarian regimes are becoming more emboldened.
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“I first saw them killing Ayana, an old man I knew as a child, for his popular big loaves of bread, locally known as anbasha. They brought him onto the street and shot him in the head,”

The killing continues in Ethiopia, and no government is doing enough to stop it.…

Today is publication day for my new collection of poems, ‘Guerrilla Country’, from Flight of the Dragonfly Press.

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Here is a sample poem

After the WCK attacks, Anera, one of the largest US humanitarian groups providing food in Gaza, is pausing operations.

Anera has provided about 1M meals a week in Gaza.

For a captive population already facing famine this is devastating.

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.World Central Kitchen staff were attacked while distributing food to populations being deliberately starved by the Israeli government.

When will Biden accept he is complicit in the Israeli government’s war crimes and stop sending deadly weaponry?

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When Joe Biden was a senator, he spoke out often to stop the genocide in Darfur. What has he said today, while Sudan is on fire??

Nominating Tom Perriello as Special Envoy shows serious intent but President Biden needs to do more.

Sign this petition now to let him know.…

Want to find out about human rights on human rights in Egypt, Iran, Sri Lanka and China and then take direct action?

Join our virtual Get On the Bus Annual Action this Friday.

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The United Nations Security Council finally approved a resolution demanding a #Ceasefire in #Gaza , humanitarian aid in larger scale and the immediate release of all hostages

The #USA abstained, allowing for the first time in months a #UNSC resolution to pass.

Today's #Haiti and #Gaza crises are similar because...

-->They are entirely human-caused
-> by the power lust of older men
-> with young men deciding who lives or dies each day
-> and thousands of innocents trapped in open air prisons
-> running out of food in two of the most…

The looming famines in #Gaza , #Haiti and #Sudan are not accidents. Each is a man-made disasters, and each one requires increased international pressure & action to ensure that aid gets to those who desperately need it.

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BREAKING: Supreme court justices seem to understand that a small number of anti-choice ideologues cannot force a nationwide ban on abortion medication.

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Dear President Biden. Now that you've found a way to call for a #CeasefireNOW , do the thing you control that will actually save lives.

#StopSendingArms

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#abortionisahumanright

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The US is no longer blocking a ceasefire at the UN!

Why did it take so many lives to change so few minds?

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Please Take this Urgent Action (and r/t):

Israel needs to release Palestinian human rights Ahmad Khalefa now.
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Russia vetoes US-led UN resolution on Gaza because, they claim, it fosters war mongering and doesn't do enough to protect the innocent.

Meanwhile, famine levels in North Gaza have hit phase 5-(catastrophe) and all of Gaza is now facing phase 3 (crisis) levels of acute food…

.President Biden, Happy International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Time to create a national human rights institution in the USA. Human rights accountability can't apply only to non-allies overseas.

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What is the opposite to believing in human rights for all?  I think it may be this...a willful blindness to how power, violence, privilege and oppression actually work.

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