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The inauguration of US President-elect Barack Obama on 20 January 2009 will be accompanied by widespread expectation of change. The world will be watching and hoping for positive outcomes on many different issues.
Ahead of his inauguration, Amnesty International’s new film First 100 days is asking the President-elect to take concrete steps to demonstrate his commitment to international human rights standards, including in the context of countering terrorism.
We have a checklist for President Obama’s first 100 days in office. His first steps should be to:
- announce a plan and date to close Guantanamo
- ban torture and other ill-treatment, as defined under international law
- ensure an independent commission of enquiry in US ‘war on terror’ abuses is set up
These things are possible and you can help. Visit www.obama100day.org today, sign the petition and support the challenge for Obama.
Media coverage of the First 100 days in the Guardian
Pictures from AI section events marking the Guantanamo anniversary in January 2009
Good idea…lets close down all prisons too while we are at it. They are all so wrong! These murderers deserve to be treated better than the people they killed and tortured. No prisons, no problem right? WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets just have them all out on the streets, living next door, driving our kids to school, working in daycares, serving our food, flying our planes, running them into buildings killing thousands of innocent people. If you are going to shut Guantamano, shut them all. Let out the serial killers while your at it. HELLO!!!!!!!! I am sick of hearing about human rights in a Guantamano! These inmates killed innocent people, millions of innocent people. They are criminals and they deserve justice. An eye for an eye. If I were to hurt someone intentionally, I should get what I deserve. How would you feel if you knew they killed millions of innocent people and would do it again in a heartbeat, doesn’t that scare you? That is why people like that are in prisons and do not deserve to be treated equally. You don’t think if the roles were reversed they wouldn’t hurt you in that prison? They don’t care about human life and they sure as hell aren’t going to give you rights,freedoms and COMPASSION. So as for human rights in Guantanamo…these people showed the world they couldn’t handle having rights. They took away lives, lots of lives.
Actually each and every country has the Human rights Organisations is functioning actively.But the Violation is Happenig through many ways. We can Stop these In HUMANISM Thrrough the Collective activities through the world court. Thepresidents of the Country is the Chief citizen of Every nation.He is the Responsible for the all.If He cant control the Inhuman activities in his country, What authority to become a member of UN? So my strongest suggestion is if the world court function according to the law if any human violation is happen any where in the world,after submitting the informations about the violation before the president of one nation,If he is not cappable to put an end to the violation we need to file the case against the president of the perticular nation.I hope if it is possible by the world court We can reduce the INHUMAN ACTIVITIES.HELP TAMILNADU (IN INDIA ) PEOPLE FROM THE FAKE ENCOUNTERS…………….THE GREATEST DRAMA FROM TAMILNADU POLICE …… put an end to the Authourised Human Massacre………………. Why indian Human rights Commission does dot interfere in this issue ?
What a silly film this is!