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Press Release
EU: Halt arms transfers to Egypt to stop fueling killings and torture
Almost half of European Union (EU) member states have flouted an EU-wide suspension on arms transfers to Egypt, risking complicity…
May 24, 2016
Report
Harmfully Isolated: Criminalizing Sex Work in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, selling sex is not illegal if one person operates from a private apartment. However, working in isolation…
May 24, 2016
Report
Q&A: Policy to Protect the Human Rights of Sex Workers
1. Why does Amnesty International need a policy to protect the human rights of sex workers? Because sex workers are…
May 24, 2016
Press Release
Amnesty International publishes policy and research on protection of sex workers’ rights
Amnesty International today published its policy on protecting sex workers from human rights violations and abuses, along with four research…
May 24, 2016
Report
Amnesty International Policy on State Obligations to Respect, Protect and Fufil the Human Rights of Sex Workers
This policy has been developed in recognition of the high rates of human rights abuses experienced globally by individuals who…
May 23, 2016
Report
The Human Cost of Crushing the Market: Criminalization of Sex Work in Norway
In Norway, purchasing sex is illegal but the direct act of selling sex is not. Other activities associated with sex…
May 23, 2016
Press Release
Larger Reforms of Lethal Force Laws Are Called for Following Second Verdict in Freddie Gray Case
Following the verdict in the second of several trials related to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, Amnesty…
May 23, 2016
Report
What I’m Doing Is Not a Crime: The Human Cost of Criminalizing Sex Work in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Formally the sale or purchase of sex in Buenos Aires is not illegal; but in practice, sex workers are criminalized…
May 23, 2016
Report
Sex Workers at Risk: A Research Summary of Human Rights Abuses Against Sex Workers
Amnesty International today published its policy on protecting sex workers from human rights violations and abuses, along with four research…
May 23, 2016
Report
Outlawed and Abused: Criminalizing Sex Work in Papua New Guinea
In Papua New Guinea, it is illegal to live off the earnings of sex work and to organize commercial sex.…
May 23, 2016
Press Release
Viet Nam: Shameful wave of arrests of activists as Obama visits
Vietnamese authorities must end their crackdown on peaceful protesters and release all prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International said today.
May 23, 2016
Press Release
Bangladesh: Prominent elderly journalist suffering ill-treatment in jail
The Bangladeshi authorities’ treatment of a prominent 81-year-old journalist, who has been held in solitary confinement for several weeks and…
May 22, 2016