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Chad: People forced to pay a heavy price for harsh austerity measures

A host of austerity measures implemented by the Chadian authorities is pushing people into deeper poverty, undermining access to necessary…

July 15, 2018

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Disappearances and torture in southern Yemen detention facilities must be investigated as war crimes

Justice remains elusive a year after a network of secret prisons was first exposed in southern Yemen, Amnesty International said…

July 11, 2018

An employee answers calls of political violence and distress in a call centre from hotspots through out Zimbabwe at a Counselling Services Unit (CSU) ahead of the July 30 Presidential elections in Harare, on July 6, 2018. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)

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Zimbabwe: Elections offer a chance to break with decades of gross human rights violations

Zimbabwe’s election at the end of the month will take place in the context of decades of politically motivated gross…

July 9, 2018

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Sierra Leone: New government must prioritize ending police crackdowns on peaceful protesters

The new government of Sierra Leone must start fulfilling its promises to improve the human rights situation in the country…

July 2, 2018

A policeman stands guard as Papuans walk to block the road to the airport in Timika, Indonesia’s Papua province December 18, 2009. Indonesian police on Wednesday said they had killed a leader of Papua’s main separatist group near Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc’s huge mine in the remote easternmost part of the country. Kelly Kwalik, the highest commander of the Free Papua Movement (OPM), was killed by police in a raid in Timika, Papua, on Wednesday morning, Papua police spokesman Agus Rianto said. REUTERS/Muhammad Yamin (INDONESIA POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) – GM1E5CI1F3W01

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Indonesia: Police and military unlawfully kill almost 100 people in Papua in eight years with near total impunity

Indonesian security forces have unlawfully killed at least 95 people in little more than eight years in the restive eastern…

July 1, 2018

Mercy and Daniel Pangain Malawi has seen a surge in killings of people with albinism, whose body parts are used in ritual practices, systematic failure of policing in Malawi has left this vulnerable group living in fear. Since November 2014, at least 18 people have been killed and at least five have been abducted and remain missing. Their bones are believed to be sold to practitioners of traditional medicine in Malawi and Mozambique for use in charms and magical potions in the belief that they bring wealth and good luck. The macabre trade is also fuelled by a belief that bones of people with albinism contain gold. Amnesty International believes that the actual number of people with albinism killed is likely to be much higher due to the fact that many secretive rituals in rural areas are never reported. There is also no systematic documentation of crimes against people with albinism in Malawi.

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End violence against people with albinism: Towards effective criminal justice for people with albinism in Malawi

The Malawian authorities must urgently overhaul the criminal justice system to protect people with albinism, who face the persistent threat of…

June 27, 2018

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Myanmar: Military top brass must face justice for crimes against humanity targeting Rohingya

Amnesty International has gathered extensive, credible evidence implicating Myanmar’s military Commander-in-Chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and 12 other named…

June 26, 2018

A Yemeni woman sits next to blankets and upholstery distributed by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to those affected by the conflict in the country, in the coastal town of Hodeida, on April 11, 2018. (Photo by ABDO HYDER / AFP) (Photo credit should read ABDO HYDER/AFP/Getty Images)

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Yemen: Restrictions to life-saving supplies putting millions of civilians at risk

Millions of lives are at risk because the entry of essential goods such as food, fuel and medical supplies into…

June 21, 2018

African migrants demonstrate in Tel Aviv on April 9, 2018, against the Israeli government’s policy to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum seekers. Only days before, a solution had been announced that would regularise the situation for many migrants and end the potential forced deportation of thousands of others. But in a stunning turnaround on April 3, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled the agreement with the UN refugee agency, bowing to pressure from his right-wing base to scrap the deal. / AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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Israel: African asylum-seeker deportations and “voluntary” transfers are forced and illegal

The Israeli government’s transfers of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers is cruel and illegal, Amnesty International said today, as it released a…

June 17, 2018

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Protest prohibited: Use of force and arbitrary detentions to suppress dissent in Honduras

Honduran authorities have continued to violate the human rights of people arrested during last year’s post-election protests by denying their…

June 13, 2018

A woman walks into Nigeria from Cameroon at a checkpoint border between Cameroon and Nigeria, in Mfum, in Cross Rivers State, southeast Nigeria, on February 1, 2018. The UN refugee agency on February 1, 2018 criticised Nigeria for breaching international agreements after the leader of a Cameroonian anglophone separatist movement and his supporters were extradited at Yaounde’s request. Cameroon’s government is fighting an insurgency by a group demanding a separate state for two regions that are home to most of the country’s anglophones, who account for about a fifth of the population. Thousands of Cameroonians fled to the remote border region with Nigeria to escape from the violences in English-speaking southwest Cameroon. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Cameroon: Anglophone regions gripped by deadly violence

Armed separatists in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions have stabbed to death and shot military personnel, burned down schools and attacked teachers, while…

June 11, 2018

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Syria: Raqqa in ruins and civilians devastated after US-led ‘war of annihilation’

From amid the rubble of Raqqa, civilians are asking why US-led Coalition forces destroyed the city, killing hundreds of civilians…

June 4, 2018