Stories of Human Abuse and Human being in wretched plight all around the World

Sign by Sept 10th to deliver your signature to UN Summit‏ Use your rights to end poverty More than 1 billion people across all continents live in slums . More than half a million women die each year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth – one every minute. Every day, in every region of the world, people living in poverty are discriminated against – whether through individual acts of others, or institutional discrimination by the state. We have documented human rights violations that deepen poverty. It is human rights violations that lead to discrimination, exclusion, maternal deaths, eviction from homes, segregation in schoo

WIRE alert: human rights news from around the world The Democratic Republic of the Congo is marks its 50th anniversary. What does the future hold for human rights in this war-torn country? Read the article and look at some stunning photographs by award-winning photographer Cédric Gerbehaye Also in this issue of WIRE [PDF]: Brazil's Indigenous communities pushed out of their lands and into poverty Families of victims of enforced disappearance fight for justice Why does Amnesty International object to the ban on the full-face veil? Above Shiite Muslim women attend the festival of Ashouna, Iraq