Posts Tagged ‘Amnesty International’

China made human rights a priority, but now it’s reneging

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

T. Kumar, Advocacy Director for Asia and Pacific for Amnesty International of the United States, names the extreme human rights violations in China and insists that China accepted the Olympic Games bid with a self-imposed promise: To improve human rights abuses. But Kumar claims that the situation has deteriorated.(0:57)

 
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American University students participate in Darfur awareness

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

During an impassioned speech by Mohamed A. Yahya, Founder and Executive Director of DAMANGA, students at American University participated in the “die-in,” where they lay on the ground to symbolize the dead in Darfur. (more…)


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