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Deadly but Preventable Attacks: Killings and Enforced Disappearances of Those who Defend Human Rights
States around the world are failing in their duty to effectively protect people who defend human rights, leading to an…
December 4, 2017
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Amnesty Responds to Supreme Court Travel Ban Decision
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow President Trump’s travel ban to go into full effect, Ashley Houghton, tactical campaigns…
December 4, 2017
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USA: Pentagon cancels ban on deadliest cluster munitions
Responding to news that the US Pentagon will indefinitely postpone a ban on older models of cluster munitions, Patrick Wilcken,…
December 1, 2017
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Pompeo and Cotton Must Disavow Torture and Other Rights Abuses As Nominees for State and CIA
According to media reports, the White House is planning to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with current CIA Director…
November 30, 2017
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Syria: Banned Soviet-made cluster munitions fuel humanitarian catastrophe in Eastern Ghouta
Syrian government forces’ increasing use of banned Soviet-made cluster munitions to carry out indiscriminate attacks and direct attacks on civilians…
November 29, 2017
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Amnesty launches world’s biggest human rights campaign
The family of an LGBTI activist hacked to death in Bangladesh, the sister of a young man gunned down by…
November 28, 2017
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Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees must not be relocated to uninhabitable island
The Bangladesh government must abandon all plans to relocate more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees on to an uninhabitable island, Amnesty…
November 28, 2017
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Egypt: 16 men jailed amidst unprecedented homophobic crackdown
Responding to the news that a Cairo court convicted 16 men of “debauchery” and sentenced them to three years prison…
November 28, 2017
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Pope’s visit in Myanmar highlights horrific crimes against Rohingya
Reacting to the remarks by Pope Francis during his visit to Myanmar today, Ming Yu Hah, Amnesty International’s Deputy Campaigns…
November 28, 2017
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Nigeria/UK/Netherlands: Investigate Shell for complicity in murder, rape and torture
The organization has released a ground-breaking review of thousands of pages of internal company documents and witness statements, as well…
November 27, 2017
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No Safe Place: LGBTI Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans Seeking Asylum in Mexico
The lives and safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) from violence-ridden El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras…
November 27, 2017
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Police return to lethal drug operations would be a ‘human rights disaster’ in the Philippines
Reacting to the news that the Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte is again considering expanding the role of the police in…
November 23, 2017