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Movements.org is a crowdsourcing platform created by Advancing Human Rights which connects activists from dictatorships with people around the world with skills to help them.

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Opposition

Iranian Dissidents Against the Iran Deal

Iranian human rights activists warn the West not to give money to the regime that terrorizes them.

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CRY FOR HELP

Muslim Extremists Want to Slit My Throat

Freethinkers in Bangladesh are increasingly targeted by Islamic extremists.

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Nukes

Iran’s Supreme Leader Needs Obama’s Deal

Ali Khamenei needs a nuclear deal with the U.S. to preserve the power of the Supreme Leader after he passes.

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Courage

Saudi Arabia Jailed My Entire Family

The sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi on keeping the fight for human rights alive even as her brother and husband languish behind bars.

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What Moderation?

Iran Threatens to Hang Facebook Activist

Iranian leaders are threatening the imminent hanging of 30-year-old Soheil Arabi. His great crime? Posting on social media.

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Dissidents

Free My Father From Prison in Iran

My father, an Iranian blogger, is being psychologically tortured and imprisoned—all for blogging about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Remember Their Names

Behind Bars for the Holidays

From a children’s-book author languishing in an Egyptian prison to an early critic of the Assad regime, these jailed dissidents deserve our attention in the new year.

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Remembering Iran’s Imprisoned Kurds

The United Nations wants us to remember human rights 365 days a year, in fact. One group that needs attention: 29 Kurds on a hunger strike in Iran’s Orumiyeh prison.

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Religious Persecution

How I Lived as an Atheist in Palestine

Waleed Al Husseini spent 10 months in Palestinian prison for being an atheist blogger. He asks why non-believers like himself are abandoned by the world.

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Syria

Kobani Before The Siege

Before ISIS militants surrounded the Syrian city, it had flourished as a place of tolerance and free speech. Now, that rich legacy has been wiped out.

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