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Investigation, Prosecution, Remedy: Accountability For Human Rights Violations In The War On Terror
The USA is required by international law to respect and ensure human rights, to thoroughly investigate every violation of those…
March 26, 2011
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Uganda: “Breaking God’s commands”: The destruction of childhood by the Lord’s Resistance Army
The organization has chosen to issue this report about abuses against children (mainly by the LRA) because thousands of...
March 26, 2011
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“A Step Backwards” – Torture and Other Ill-Treatment by Burundi’s National Intelligence Service
“A Step Backwards” – Torture and other Ill-Treatment by Burundi’s National Intelligence Service
March 26, 2011
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Zimbabwe: A trail of violence after the ballot
Amnesty International has documented unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment of human rights defenders in Zimbabwe following elections on March…
March 26, 2011
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Nigeria: Time to end contempt for human rights
The present military government in Nigeria has a record of open contempt for human rights. This report begins with an…
March 26, 2011
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Canada: Canada Still Refusing to Seek Omar Khadr’s Repatriation from Guantánamo; Mohammed Jawad Returned to Afghanistan
By refusing to seek the repatriation of its national, Omar Khadr, from US custody in Guantánamo Bay, the Canadian...
March 26, 2011
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New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq
More than seven years after the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the human rights situation remains dire. Despite…
March 26, 2011
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Uganda: Arrest Now! Joseph Kony, Vincent Otti, Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen
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March 26, 2011
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Morocco: Continued detention of three brothers who “disappeared” in 1973 (STOP PRESS: released 30 December 1991)
Midhat Rene Bourequat, Bayazid Jacques Bourequat and Ali Auguste Bourequat, three brothers of French nationality, were...
March 26, 2011
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USA: Secrecy blocks accountability, again: Federal court dismisses ‘rendition’ lawsuit; points to avenues for non-judicial remedy
It is a fundamental principle of international law that any person whose human rights have been violated shall have access...
March 26, 2011
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Indonesia: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review. First session of UPR Working Group 7-18 April 2008
Amnesty International raises concerns over shortcomings of the Indonesian Criminal Procedure Code; on death penalty and counter-terrorism legislation; concerns related…
March 26, 2011
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Uganda: Human rights violations by the National Resistance Army
Amnesty International has received persistent reports of human rights violations in 1991 in the northern Ugandan districts...
March 26, 2011