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Press Release
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 followed by three years’ probation, Amnesty International’s Najia Bounaim the North Africa campaigns director said the following.
November 28, 2017
Press Release
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 Director for South East Asia and the Pacific, said the following.
November 28, 2017
Report
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 as Amnesty International’s own archive from the period.
November 27, 2017
Report
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 are at an increased risk as authorities in their countries fail to protect them, leaving them with no choice but to flee their countries and face further dangers in Mexico, Amnesty International said in a new report today.
November 27, 2017
Press Release
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 his administration’s “war on drugs”, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said the following
November 23, 2017
Press Release
Rohingya returns in Myanmar unthinkable until apartheid system is dismantled
In response to news that the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to return close to a million Rohingya refugees currently in Bangladesh, Amnesty International’s Director for Refugee and Migrant Rights, Charmain Mohamed, said the following
November 23, 2017
Press Release
Turkey: Global figures join call to “end gross injustice” as trial of Amnesty Chair and Director and other rights activists resumes
More than 70 renowned cultural and political figures have come together to demand that Turkish authorities drop trumped-up terrorism charges against 11 human rights defenders, including Amnesty International’s Turkey Director and Chair.
November 22, 2017
Report
The Years of Solitude Continue
A year on from the signing of the peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC), other guerrilla and paramilitary groups are wrestling for control of parts of the country in conflicts that are wreaking havoc on the lives of ordinary Colombians, Amnesty International said in a new report today.
November 22, 2017
Press Release
Court decision to keep Amnesty Turkey Chair in jail flies in the face of reason
Responding to today’s decision by the Istanbul Court to continue the pre-trial detention of Amnesty International’s Turkey Chair, Taner Kılıç, John Dalhuisen said the following:
November 22, 2017
Press Release
State Department Acknowledges Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the sustained and systemic attacks on the Rohingya population by the Myanmar military “ethnic cleansing” today in a long-overdue acknowledgment of the nature of the humanitarian crisis.
November 22, 2017
Press Release
Zimbabwe: Post-Mugabe government must open new chapter of respect for rights
Responding to the news that Robert Mugabe has resigned as President of Zimbabwe, Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International said the following:
November 21, 2017
Report
Myanmar: Rohingya trapped in dehumanizing apartheid regime
The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a vicious system of state-sponsored, institutionalized discrimination that amounts to apartheid, said Amnesty International today as it publishes a major new analysis into the root causes of the current crisis in Rakhine State.
November 20, 2017