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Press Release
New Satellite Images Show Scale of North Korea’s Repressive Prison Camps
New satellite images showing the on-going development of North Korea’s two largest political prison camps.
December 4, 2013
Update
Have You Seen What’s Happening in the Central African Republic?
We already know crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed on a grand scale. Surely that is bad enough to merit a swift response.
December 4, 2013
Press Release
World’s Top Rock Stars Join Amnesty International in Saluting Landmark Human Rights Anniversary
Thirty-six of the world's leading musicians performing some of their biggest hits live in support of Amnesty International are the stars joining in worldwide commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
December 3, 2013
Update
The Illegal Practice That Generates $44 Billion a Year For Perpetrators
Read the heartbreaking testimony from this new Amnesty report.
December 3, 2013
Update
When A Fight For Environmental Reform Becomes A Fight For Human Rights
Dow Chemical's Bhopal gas leak, and the continuing contamination of local soil and water that killed 25,000 people and injured or sickened over 100,000, is horrifying.
December 3, 2013
Update
Avoid Mass Slaughter: U.N. Peacekeepers Needed To Protect Civilians During #CARCrisis @AmbassadorPower @StateDept
This week could be the tipping point for the human rights and humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic, which continues to spin out of control.
December 3, 2013
Update
The Quick Way You Can Take Action for Syrian Women Facing Gender Violence
Once in refugee camps, Syrian women and girls expected to find safety. What they found was more danger.
December 3, 2013
Update
The Fight Isn’t Over: Keep Calling for An End to Obama’s #GameOfDrones
Nearly 200,000 people followed the tour online, hundreds of students joined Amnesty, and groups grew on every campus where we stopped. Lend your voice to the call!
December 3, 2013
Report
North Korea: New satellite images show continued investment in the infrastructure of repression
In October 2013, Amnesty International commissioned analysis of satellite images of political prison camp (kwanliso) 15 at Yodok in South Hamgyong province and kwanliso 16 at Hwaseong in North Hamgyong province. The images show that instead of heeding the growing calls for closing its political prison camps, repression by the North Korean authorities has continued and the prisoner population in kwanliso 16 appears to have slightly increased. The North Korean authorities’ on-going investment in the country’s political prison camps is part of the continuing systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights throughout the country.
December 2, 2013
Press Release
UN Peacekeeping Mission Needed to Avoid Mass Slaughter in Central African Republic
The UN Security Council has no time to waste to authorize a robust peacekeeping force for deployment to the Central African Republic to protect civilians from the violence and chaos engulfing the country, Amnesty International said today.
December 2, 2013
Report
EXPLOITED for profit, FAILED by governments: Indonesian migrant domestic workers trafficked to Hong Kong
Out of 319,325 migrant domestic workers in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong SAR), about half are Indonesian and nearly all are women. Indonesians must migrate via recruitment agencies that are registered with their Government. This report is a detailed examination of the experiences of Indonesian migrant domestic workers, from their recruitment in Indonesia to their employment in Hong Kong, and documents a series of human and labour rights violations that these workers are subject to in both territories.
December 2, 2013
Update
Amnesty Partners With Weinstein Company For New Mandela Movie
Remember those who feel forgotten. Stand with those who feel alone. Speak for those who have been silenced. Know that alone I have power; together we are invincible.
December 2, 2013