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Nigeria: Threats from the military won’t deter us from defending human rights

The Nigerian military is increasingly resorting to threats, intimidation and smears to discredit Amnesty International’s work documenting the human rights…

June 7, 2018

A Saudi woman drives her car along a street in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah, on September 27, 2017. Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from next June, state media said on September 26, 2017 in a historic decision that makes the Gulf kingdom the last country in the world to permit women behind the wheel. / AFP PHOTO / REEM BAESHEN (Photo credit should read REEM BAESHEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Saudi Arabia: International community cannot afford to remain silent about detained women’s rights activists

The international community and allies of the Saudi Arabian government must speak up to help secure the immediate and unconditional…

June 1, 2018

DUBLIN, IRELAND - MAY 26: A young woman walks past art work featuring Savita Halappanavar which states 'Never Again' as the results in the Irish referendum on the 8th amendment concerning the country's abortion laws takes place at Dublin Castle on May 26, 2018 in Dublin, Ireland. Savita Halappanavar who became the symbol of the Yes campaign to repeal the 8th amendment, died aged 32, due to complications following a septic miscarriage in Galway in 2012. Voters in Ireland went to the polls yesterday to decide whether to abolish or keep the 8th amendment, which makes it illegal for a woman to have an abortion in the country unless in circumstances where her life is at risk. Exit polls have indicated that the Yes vote has won by a landslide majority. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

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Historic Ireland abortion referendum victory sends message of hope around the world

Reacting to news of the victory for the “Yes” campaign in Ireland’s referendum on abortion, Colm O Gorman, Executive Director…

May 26, 2018

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Nigeria: Starving women raped by soldiers and militia who claim to be rescuing them

Thousands of women and girls who survived the brutal rule of the Boko Haram armed group have since been further…

May 23, 2018

March for choice in Dublin, Ireland, 26 September, 2015. Over 150 people gather on the millenium bridge to #light the way to the global goals.

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Ireland: Abortion referendum is historic opportunity to vote for equality, compassion and dignity

Women and girls in Ireland finally have a once in a generation opportunity to have their right to decide what…

May 22, 2018

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Global Wikipedia edit-a-thon shines spotlight on the unsung women defending human rights around the world

Wikipedia enthusiasts from around the world are joining forces on 19 and 20 May 2018 to take part in a…

May 18, 2018

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Domestic Gag Rule is Deadly Says Amnesty International USA

Reacting to news that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services may adopt a "domestic gag rule" around Title…

May 18, 2018

March to mark one month of the killings of the human rights defender and city councilor Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Brazil: International solidarity is crucial to solving activist Marielle Franco’s killing

Increased global activism is crucial to pressuring Brazilian authorities into solving the killing of the human rights defender and city…

May 12, 2018

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Sudan: Death sentence for raped teenager is an intolerable cruelty

A Sudanese court’s sentencing today of a 19-year-old woman to death for killing her rapist husband in self-defence highlights the…

May 10, 2018

Alexa, a 34-year-old woman forced to flee Honduras after two of her sons under the age of 13 were murdered by gang members, 18 July 2016

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Ending TPS for Honduras Could Put Lives in Danger

Today, the Department of Homeland Security announced the end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation to Honduras, despite the country’s…

May 4, 2018

Women's rights activists outside El Salvador's Supreme Court on the day Amnesty International and Agrupacion Ciudadana por la Despenalizacion del Aborto presented over 300,000 petitions calling for the decriminalisation of abortion. San Salvador,22 April, 2015

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El Salvador: Failure to decriminalize abortion is a terrible blow to human rights

The failure to pass a reform to decriminalize abortion during El Salvador’s latest legislative cycle is a sickening step backwards…

April 27, 2018

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Iraq: Women and children with perceived ties to IS denied aid, sexually exploited and trapped in camps

Iraq: Women and children with perceived ties to IS denied aid, sexually exploited and trapped in camps  Iraqi women and…

April 16, 2018