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Brazil: Picking up the pieces: Women’s experience of urban violence in Brazil
This report provides a glimpse of what life is like for women in many parts of Brazil today. In socially…
February 23, 2012
Report
Fleeing War, Finding Misery: The Plight of the Internally Displaced in Afghanistan
As Afghans flee conflict and abandon their homes, the country faces a housing and humanitarian crisis that takes a terrible…
February 23, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International Condemns Egypt’s Systematic Failure to Rein in Security Forces
Egypt's security forces continue to kill protestors with the same brutal tactics used in Hosni Mubarak's last days in power,…
February 17, 2012
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Top U.S. and U.K. Comedians Come Together to Celebrate Free Speech at Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball in New York
Amnesty International announced today that some of the top comedic talent in the U.S. and U.K. will be joining the…
February 16, 2012
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Militias Threaten Hope for New Libya
Lawlessness still pervades Libya a year after the outbreak of the uprising which ended 42 year of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s…
February 15, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International Urges Stricter Limits on Police Taser Use as U.S. Death Toll Reaches 500
Two days after the death of a Georgia man who was shocked with a police Taser -- raising the known…
February 15, 2012
Press Release
Death Toll Rises in Syria As Bombardment Of Civilian Areas Escalates In Homs, Amnesty International Says
At least 377 civilians have been killed in Homs in recent days as Syrian security forces escalated their shelling of…
February 15, 2012
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Amnesty International Condemns “Outrageous” Government Raid On LGBT Activists’ Workshop in Uganda
Following a raid by a Ugandan cabinet minister on a workshop being run by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)…
February 14, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International Urges China to Avoid Forced Repatriation of North Korean Defectors
A group of 21 North Koreans must not be forcibly repatriated by the Chinese government, Amnesty International said amid reports…
February 14, 2012
Report
The 10th Anniversary of “Law of War” Detentions at Guantánamo:
The modern history of the USA indeed includes examples of remarkable advocacy and progress for human rights. One area, however,…
February 13, 2012
Press Release
Bahrain: One year on, accountability remains a distant aspiration
The Bahraini government remains far from delivering the human rights changes that were recommended by an independent international commission, Amnesty…
February 13, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International Condemns Harsh Sentence for Chinese poet Zhu Yufu
Today’s sentencing of veteran activist Zhu Yufu to seven years for writing a poem deemed to “incite subversion of state…
February 10, 2012