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Save a Cuban mother from an unjust trial

Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, a Cuban human rights activist faces trial on Wednesday August 20, 2008 on charges of with "contempt for the proper authorities." If imprisoned, she will become Cuba's newe...

Cuba

Freedom of opinion & expression

Signature campaign against enforced disappearances

The International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) launches a signature campaign to promote the UN Convention against Enforced Disappearances.

Global

Forced disappearances

2008 Specialised Human Rights Institute (SHRI 2008)

11 August 2008 - 22 August 2008

Global

Détention, Discrimination

2008 Specialised Human Rights Institute (SHRI 2008)

11 August 2008 - 22 August 2008

Global

Détention, Discrimination

Climate Matters Video Contest

Imagine if you had one minute in an elevator to tell our next President why climate change matters. What would you say?

United States

Education, Environment, Sustainable development

Global Action Against Enforced Disappearances

The International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) releases a signature campaign to promote the UN Convention against Enforced Disappearances....

Global

Forced disappearances

Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China: Silenced Writers Speak on the Eve of the Olympics

On Thursday evening, August 7, 2008 – the night before the Olympic Games open in Beijing – PEN will hold an event at Tishman Auditorium in New York City in which a dozen of our leading members, i...

United States

Freedom of opinion & expression, Prisons

AUGUST 30: GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST ENFORCED DISAPPERANCES

August 30th 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of the International Day of the Disappeared. Join in with the