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CAR: Fresh evidence UN peacekeepers drugged and raped young woman

The United Nations must take firm action in response to credible new evidence that UN peacekeepers drugged and raped a…

October 11, 2017

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Nigeria: Justice impossible unless Boko Haram terror suspects get fair trials

As the mass trial of Boko Haram suspects on terrorism-related charges continues in Nigeria, Amnesty International Nigeria Director Osai Ojigho…

October 11, 2017

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Amnesty International USA Honors Indigenous Activist Charon Asetoyer

Amnesty International USA will honor Charon Asetoyer, a member of the Comanche nation and a lifelong Native American women’s health…

October 10, 2017

AI France staff membres protesting the arrest and detention of AI Turkey director Idil Eser and AI Turkey chairman Taner Kiliç at the Turkish embassy in Paris on 10 July 2017.

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Outrageous charges against jailed Amnesty staff in Turkey must be rejected

Responding to news that a prosecutor has filed an indictment calling for jail terms of up to 15 years on…

October 8, 2017

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UN downplays Saudi Arabia-led coalition’s crimes against children in Yemen

The international community has caved in to political pressure again, underplaying the suffering of hundreds of Yemeni children, by watering…

October 6, 2017

Afghan security forces personnel are seen at the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul on May 31, 2017. At least 40 people were killed or wounded on May 31 as a massive blast ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter, shattering the morning rush hour and bringing carnage to the streets of the Afghan capital. / AFP PHOTO / SHAH MARAI (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Forced Back to Danger: Asylum-Seekers Returned from Europe to Afghanistan

European governments have put thousands of Afghans in harm’s way by forcibly returning them to a country where they are…

October 4, 2017

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Attack in Las Vegas Shows Utter Contempt for Human Life

CONTACT: Mandy Simon, [email protected] NEW YORK – Following a mass shooting last night in Las Vegas, Margaret Huang, Amnesty International USA executive…

October 2, 2017

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UN: Breakthrough resolution establishes expert group to investigate violations in Yemen

A resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Council today, mandating a group of international experts to investigate abuses by…

September 29, 2017

Burundian refugees gather along the shoreline of the Tanganyika lake in the fishing village of Kagunga, on May 21, 2015. UNHCR is transporting approximately 2000 refugees per day to a transit camp at the stadium in Kigoma. Over 110,000 Burundians have become refugees since unrest erupted in their country in April, according to the UN refugee agency, and 70,000 of them have gone to Tanzania. AFP PHOTO/DANIEL HAYDUK (Photo credit should read Daniel Hayduk/AFP/Getty Images)

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Conform or flee: Repression and insecurity pushing Burundians into exile

Thousands of Burundian refugees are under mounting pressure to return to their country where they would be at risk of…

September 28, 2017

A Rohingya Muslim illegal immigrant puts his hand on the railing inside the Immigration Detention Centre during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kanchanaburi province July 10, 2013. More than a hundred Rohingya Muslims gathered to pray and break fast as they welcome the first day of Ramadan in Thailand. The stateless people arrived in Thailand earlier in January this year after fleeing a bloody conflict between the Buddhist and Muslims in Myanmar's western Rakhine State. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha (THAILAND - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION IMMIGRATION) - GM1E97B031V01

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

With the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis developing on its doorstep, Thailand must take concrete action to reverse its long-standing…

September 28, 2017

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's Rakhine state arrive near the Khanchon border crossing near the Bangaldeshi town of Teknaf on Septebmer 5, 2017. Nearly 125,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh since a fresh upsurge of violence in Myanmar on August 25, the United Nations said September 5, as fears grow of a humanitarian crisis in the overstretched camps. The UN said 123,600 had crossed the border in the past 11 days from Myanmar's violence-wracked Rakhine state. / AFP PHOTO / K M Asad (Photo credit should read K M ASAD/AFP/Getty Images)

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Myanmar: UN Security Council must impose arms embargo

The UN Security Council must do everything it can to end the crimes against humanity and ongoing ethnic cleansing against…

September 27, 2017

A Saudi woman drives her car along a street in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah, on September 27, 2017. Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from next June, state media said on September 26, 2017 in a historic decision that makes the Gulf kingdom the last country in the world to permit women behind the wheel. / AFP PHOTO / REEM BAESHEN (Photo credit should read REEM BAESHEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Saudi Arabia: Right to drive is a long overdue step forward for women

Responding to the Saudi Arabian government’s announcement that women will be allowed to drive, Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Research and…

September 27, 2017