Urgent Action: Student in Norway is at risk of deportation to Afghanistan
18-year old student Taibeh Abbasi is at imminent risk of being deported to Afghanistan, a country she has never been to.
Urgent Action: Ohio prepares for its first execution of 2018
Raymond Tibbetts, aged 60, is due to be executed in Ohio on 13 February.
Urgent Action: Two young men remain disappeared in Mexico
Between 27 December and 3 January, at least seven young men disappeared in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state
Urgent Action Good News: Lesotho soldiers acquitted of mutiny charges
A Military Court Martial acquitted 22 Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Soldiers of mutiny charges
Urgent Action update: Cuban prisoner of conscience attacked in prison
Three other prisoners attacked Eduardo Cardet, according to his wife.
Urgent Action update: Man arrested at 17 at risk of execution in Iran
Hamid Ahmadi, arrested at 17 and sentenced to death on the basis of torture-tainted “confessions” is at risk of execution
Urgent Action update: Two men still missing one year later in South Sudan
Dong Samuel Luak and Aggrey Idri, who were disappeared a year ago are still missing.
Urgent Action: Execution set in USA for crime man cannot remember
Vernon Madison is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on 25 January. He lacks a rational understanding of his punishment.
Session 9: respect
Students look at the subtleties and connotations of language, and the impact words have in describing a person or event.