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Amnesty International produces reports based on rigorous and independent research. These reports document patterns of human rights abuses and provide a blueprint for change.

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“We are at a breaking point”: Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, neglected in Bangladesh

The Myanmar security forces are responsible for unlawful killings, multiple rapes and the burning down of houses and entire villages…

December 16, 2016

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Crimea: In the Dark: The silencing of dissent

The Crimean Tatar community has been subjected to systematic persecution by the Russian authorities since the occupation and illegal annexation…

December 14, 2016

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A migrant worker in Qatar stands in an orange vest

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New name, old system? Qatar’s new employment law and abuse of migrant workers

Changes to labor laws in Qatar barely scratch the surface and will continue to leave migrant workers, including those building…

December 9, 2016

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Displaced and dispossessed: Sur residents’ right to return home

Tens of thousands of residents of the UNESCO world heritage site of Sur are among an estimated half a million…

December 2, 2016

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Beating Justice: How Fiji’s Security Forces Get Away with Torture

Under the military’s dominance, the Pacific island nation of Fiji has seen an ingrained culture of torture take root among…

December 1, 2016

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The great palm oil scandal: Labor abuses behind big brand names

The world’s most popular food and household companies are selling food, cosmetics and other everyday staples containing palm oil tainted…

November 28, 2016

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Bullets Were Raining Everywhere: Deadly Repression of Pro-Biafra Activists

The Nigerian security forces, led by the military, embarked on a chilling campaign of extrajudicial executions and violence resulting in…

November 22, 2016

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Waiting in vain: Unlawful police killings and relatives’ long struggle for justice

Jamaican authorities and local police are promoting a culture of fear amongst women and their families in marginalized communities to…

November 22, 2016

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Window-dressing or pioneers of change? An assessment of Bahrain’s human rights oversight bodies

Five years after Bahrain’s 2011 uprising, which saw peaceful protesters beaten, shot, and killed in the streets, key reforms introduced…

November 18, 2016

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Agents of the people: Four years of foreign agents law in Russia

More than a hundred organizations have seen their funding shrink, their reputations tarnished, and their staff intimidated under Russia’s draconian…

November 17, 2016

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Iran: Macabre propaganda videos feature forced ‘confessions’ of executed Sunni men

Iran’s authorities have used crude propaganda tactics to dehumanize death penalty victims in the eyes of the public and divert…

November 15, 2016

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Nowhere else to go: Forced returns of Somali refugees from Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya

Kenya: Government officials coercing refugees back to war-torn Somalia Just two weeks before the deadline given to close the Dadaab…

November 14, 2016