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in lraq is not only inspiring to all of us, but also reflects the core value that Amnesty
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On 11 Februrary, AIHK invited NahokoTakafo, a Japanese human rights defender, to share with us what she witnessed when she was working as a volunteer in lraq Takato was helping lraqi street children in Baghdad from 2003 to 2OO4. She was kidnapped by an armed group when she was on the way to Fullujah to deliver medical aid to the hosoital there, and was held hostage for I days.
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Amnesty lnternational has reported elsewhere on its concerns over the past two years relating to abuseó by the MNF. ln the recently published report "lraq in Cold Blood: Abuses by Armed Groups", Amnesty lnternational condemns unreservedly direct attacks on civilians as well as indiscriminate attacks, hostage-taking, torture and illtreatment, whatever the cause of the perpetrators. Amnesty lnternational is also calling on other governments in the region and elsewhere to prevent their territory being used by anymore to provide military or other assistance to armed groups responsible for abuses against civ¡lians.
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ln Colombia, trade unionists have been threatened, attacked, and assassinated, and have "disappeared". Between 1 January and 15 October 2OO2, 118 trade unionists were killed. lt is believed that the capability of these human rights abusers to comm¡t these violent and abusive acts can be greatly reduced if they were not given the chance to obtain the weapons in the first place.
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Your support --- Be one in a million Amnesty lnternational Hong Kong launched its involvement in the "Million Faces Petition" on last year's lnternational Human Rights Day Celebration. We have collected many photos of Hong Kong citizens, and these will join the hundreds of thousands of photos already collected around
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