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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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Burundi: Suspected Mass Graves of Victims of 11 December Violence

Compelling new satellite images, video footage and witness accounts analyzed by Amnesty International strongly indicate that dozens of people killed…

January 27, 2016

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Critical Repression: Freedom of Expression Under Attack in Malaysia

Malaysia’s government has launched an unprecedented crackdown through the Sedition Act over the past two years to silence, harass and…

January 25, 2016

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Growing Up on Death Row: The Death Penalty and Juvenile Offenders in Iran

Scores of youths in Iran are languishing on death row for crimes committed under the age of 18, said Amnesty…

January 25, 2016

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Banished and Dispossessed: Forced Displacement and Deliberate Destruction in Northern Iraq

Peshmerga forces from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdish militias in northern Iraq have bulldozed, blown up and burned…

January 15, 2016

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This is What We Die For: Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Power the Global Trade in Cobalt

Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by…

January 15, 2016

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“Treated with Indolence:” The State’s Response to Disappearances in Mexico 

Systemic incompetence and a complete lack of will by state and federal authorities in Mexico to properly search for and…

January 13, 2016

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Shamed and Blamed: Pregnant Girls’ Rights at Risk in Sierra Leone

Thousands of pregnant girls, excluded from mainstream schools and barred from sitting upcoming exams, risk being left behind as Sierra…

November 6, 2015

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Colombia: Restoring the Land, Securing the Peace

The Colombian government must prioritize the right of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities to decide how their land is developed above…

November 5, 2015

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We Had Nowhere Else to Go: Forced Displacement and Demolitions in Northern Syria

A fact-finding mission to northern Syria has uncovered a wave of forced displacement and home demolitions amounting to war crimes…

October 12, 2015

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Fenced Out

The Hungarian government has invested more than 1OO million euros on razor-wire fencing and border controls to keep refugees and…

October 7, 2015

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Driven Out for Development: Forced Evictions in Mombasa

In a welcome U-turn, Kenya’s highway authority (KENHA) has admitted that it was wrong to forcibly evict more than 100…

October 5, 2015

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Chains of Abuse: The Global Diamond Supply Chain and the Case of the Central African Republic

The Central African Republic’s (CAR) biggest traders have purchased diamonds worth several million dollars without adequately investigating whether they financed…

September 29, 2015