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Qatar: Authorities must step up efforts to honour labour rights promises before 2022 World Cup

With less than four years to go until the 2022 World Cup, the Qatari authorities risk falling behind on their…

February 4, 2019

Uyghurs people demonstrate against China outside of the United Nations (UN) offices during the Universal Periodic Review of China by the UN Human Rights Council, on November 6, 2018 in Geneva. - China's mass detainment of ethnic Uighurs and its crackdown on civil liberties likely figures high on the agenda when countries meet at the UN in Geneva to review Beijing's rights record. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)

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UN: Act to End China’s Mass Detentions in Xinjiang

The United Nations Human Rights Council should adopt a resolution establishing an international fact-finding mission to Xinjiang, the region of…

February 4, 2019

House bombed by coalition forces in East Mosul, Northern Iraq, 15 March, 2017.

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Coalition should follow Australia’s lead after military admits civilian deaths in Mosul

Responding to the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) admission that its air strikes in Mosul, Iraq may have caused up to…

February 1, 2019

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Deadliest Boko Haram attack on Rann leaves at least 60 people murdered in Nigeria

At least 60 people were killed following the January 28 devastating Boko Haram attack on Rann, a border town in…

February 1, 2019

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Tracy Wilkinson of the LA Times and Alli Maloney of Teen Vogue Named as Judges for Amnesty International USA Media Awards

Two judges have been named to the panel of Amnesty International USA’s Media Awards, which will re-launched in New York City on…

January 31, 2019

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Israel/OPT: Tourism companies driving settlement expansion, profiting from war crimes

Online booking giants Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor are fueling human rights violations against Palestinians by listing hundreds of rooms…

January 30, 2019

Pakistani Christians attend a Christmas Day service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Karachi on December 25, 2018. (Photo by RIZWAN TABASSUM / AFP) (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)

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Asia Bibi must finally get her freedom in Pakistan

Responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold its ruling, again acquitting Asia Bibi of blasphemy charges and ordering her…

January 29, 2019

Sri Lankan attendeed react as they read through names of fallen soldiers on a memorial for those who died in the decades-long conflict against the Tamil Tigers, during a commemorative ceremony in Colombo on May 19, 2017, marking the eight anniversary of the end of the islands Tamil separatist war. / AFP PHOTO / Ishara S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Hope flickers as justice still proves elusive in Sri Lanka

In 2015, Sri Lanka co-sponsored Resolution 30/1 at the UN Human Rights Council to demonstrate the newly elected government’s commitment…

January 25, 2019

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Amnesty International and National Immigrant Justice Center Send Senior Leadership Delegation to US-Mexico Border

Amnesty International and the National Immigrant Justice Center are sending an international delegation of senior leadership to monitor the impact…

January 24, 2019

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Saudi Arabia: Independent investigation urgently needed amid more reports of torture and sexual abuse of activists

Amnesty International has obtained new reports of torture and abuse inflicted on a group of Saudi Arabian human rights activists…

January 24, 2019

TOPSHOT - Venezuelans opposed to President Nicolas Maduro hold a demonstration in Medellin, Colombia in support of opposition leader Juan Guaido's self-proclamation as acting president of Venezuela, on January 23, 2019. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP/Getty Images)

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More than a dozen people killed in protests in Venezuela

In response to reports that at least a dozen people were killed in the context of the protests in Venezuela,…

January 24, 2019

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Iran’s ‘year of shame’: More than 7,000 arrested in chilling crackdown on dissent during 2018

The Iranian authorities carried out a shameless campaign of repression during 2018, crushing protests and arresting thousands in a wide-scale…

January 23, 2019