WIRE ALERT from AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 4MAR13

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WIRE alert: human rights news from around the world Activists worldwide are gearing up to make history in March, when the final UN conference on a global Arms Trade Treaty takes place in New York, USA. It’s time to push for a bullet proof treaty to keep arms out of the wrong hands. Join our global week of action from 11-18 March. Also in this issue of WIRE: The human cost of the “Arab Spring” uprisings in Syria has been devastating. WIRE talks to Amnesty Researcher CILINA NASSER and Senior Crisis Advisor DONATELLA ROVERA about the conflict so far. Ahead of a new global campaign to stop discrimination against Romani people across Europe, four Romani activists talk to WIRE about how racism and segregation can ruin people’s lives, and also motivate them to fight for their human rights. ACT NOW Uladzslau Kavalyou was arrested in connection with a bomb attack in Belarus in April 2011. After an unfair trial, he was sentenced to death in November 2011 and executed in 2012. Read our interview with Lubou Kavalyoua, Uladzslau’s mother, and take action. New Amnesty research in Iraq has uncovered powerful stories of widespread human rights abuses, a decade after Saddam Hussein’s brutal rule ended. Read more and take action through our worldwide appeal. Until next time, WIRE Team Above: A man protesting against Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi shows used shotgun cartridges from bullets he said were fired by riot police during clashes along Qasr Al Nil bridge, which leads to Tahrir Square in Cairo, 27 January, 2013. © REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh Amnesty international teams blogging from the ground: Li Yan is alive, but still facing execution Li Yan is on death row in China for murdering her husband after suffering repeated, horrific abuse at his hands. She could be put to death any day now. By Luisa De Campo from Amnesty International Australia Read more and comment ‘I want the world to know about us’ For many people flying to Greece means sunshine and leisure. Indeed the sun is shining today and the sea is blue and tempting. But for others, the same sea is dark and dangerous.   By Giorgos Kosmopoulos, Amnesty International’s EU team campaigner and Carmen Dupont, European campaign coordinator on migration. Read more and comment Join our Online communities on Twitter and Facebook at the Global Activism Center Amnesty International International Secretariat  1 Easton Street London, WC1X 0DW www.amnesty.org Who We Are    How You Can Help    Learn About Human Rights    News    Become a Member

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