Amnesty International Magazine
Amnesty International Magazine is AIUSA's magazine for members. It features news about effective grassroots campaigns by Amnesty International activists; hard-hitting expos�s by leading journalists; updates on Amnesty policies and actions. We also showcase the work of top photographers. A subscription is included with your $25 annual membership. Learn more about joining Amnesty International.
- Winter 2005
Defender of the Sierra
For standing up to corrupt landowning bosses and international logging interests in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, activist Felipe Arreaga was framed for murder and thrown in prison. Now free, Arreaga faces a precarious future as a man marked for revenge.
Please join us from 3:00-4:00 PM Eastern on Tuesday, December 13th to talk with Monica Campbell, a freelance journalist based in Mexico City, who recently interviewed.
Brutality in Blue
Groundbreaking research by Amnesty International USA shows a dangerous pattern of police brutality toward gays and transgender people. Activists are pressing for change and seeing some hopeful signs.
Please join us from 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern on Thursday, December 15th to talk with Ariel Herrera, national field organizer in AIUSA's LGBT Human Rights OUTfront! Program.
Streets of Despair
Ruthless criminal syndicates prey on the world's most vulnerable women and children, trafficking them across borders and forcing them into lives of servitude. Women trafficked into the sex trade suffer terribly in this modern-day slavery.
- Fall 2005
Unrelenting Danger
Guatemalan women face the risk of murder, rape and unspeakable violence every day. The courageous among them are fighting the climate of fear.
Conscience of the Pacific
Persecution and years in a hard labor camp could not break the resolve of Russia's environmental whistle-blower Grigory Pasko, who exposed nuclear dumping in the Sea of Japan.
Cruel and Inhumane: Executing the Mentally Ill
Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings barring executions of juvenile offenders and people with mental retardation have given death penalty opponents hope that the mentally ill may someday also be spared. But the issue raises difficult questions for lawmakers and courts.
