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  • Jan 24 2012
  • 6:08pm
Strange fruit: the Egyptian revolution one year on
The phrase being used is “reaping the fruit”.
  • Jan 23 2012
  • 7:23pm
Welcome to the Urgent Action blog
Hello and welcome to the Urgent Action Network blog!  This blog is run by the Urgent Action team volunteers and staff  in Individuals at Risk team and we hope it will ...
  • Jan 23 2012
  • 5:15pm
Kenya on the road to justice?
For most of us (unless you're David Cameron, Nick Clegg or Gordon Brown), the last UK general election was nothing short of a soap-operatic, emotion-fuelled dramatic spectacle.
  • Jan 21 2012
  • 1:16am
USA: Children, Life Without Parole, and the Case of Christi Cheramie
In the USA children can be sentenced to life without parole, despite an almost universal legal and moral consensus that this sentence should never be imposed on someone under t ...