The BFP has five working groups: Activist Training and Development, International Justice, Women/Gender/Sexuality, Human Trafficking and Immigration/Refugees. Through these working groups we address a wide range of issues, including
Violence Against Women
Death Penalty Abolition
War on Terror
Individuals at Risk
China
International Justice
U.S. Human Rights
Katrina Survivors
LGBT Human Rights
Darfur
Mexican Foreign Aid
Military Contractors
Arms Trade
Business and Human Rights
Children
Poverty and Human Rights
Refugees, Immigration and Asylum
Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
Burma
Good News!
On Monday August 17th the Supreme Court issued an order mandating a new evidentiary hearing for death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis. With its ruling, the nation's highest court decided that Davis should have another chance to prove his innocence before the state of Georgia puts him to death.
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38 Ethiopian political prisoners freed!
Amnesty International welcomes the release of Mesfin Woldemariam, one of 38 Ethiopian opposition party officials, prominent human rights defenders and journalists who were freed on July 20. Professor Woldemariam is Ethiopia's most prominent human rights defender and one of AIUSA's five special focus cases. Many thanks to all who took action on his behalf.
2007-07-20