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USA: Excessive and lethal force? Amnesty International’s concerns about deaths and ill-treatment involving police use of Tasers
In the past three years, more than 70 people are reported to have died in the USA and Canada after being struck by M26 or...
March 26, 2011
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Sudan: Darfur: Rape as a weapon of war: sexual violence and its consequences
This report finds that rape and other forms of sexual violence in Darfur are being used as a weapon of war in order to...
March 26, 2011
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Issue Brief: Uganda: Stop the Slaughter
On February 22, 2004, members of the Lords Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony, attacked a camp of Internally Displaced...
March 26, 2011
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Túnez. EL CICLO DE LA INJUSTICIA
More than ten years after the mass and grossly unfair military trials of 1992, hundreds of political activists or alleged...
March 26, 2011
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USA: New York: Allegations of police brutality against participants at gay rally
Amnesty International is urging the New York authorities to carry out an investigation into allegations that officers from...
March 26, 2011
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Uganda: Breaking the circle: Protecting human rights in the northern war zone
The war in northern Uganda is in its thirteenth year. The districts of Gulu and Kitgum, home of the Acholi ethnic group,...
March 26, 2011
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USA: “Not part of my sentence”: Violations of the human rights of women in custody
This document, produced as part of the USA campaign, gives details of the human rights abuses suffered by women in custody...
March 26, 2011
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Uganda: “Breaking God’s commands”: The destruction of childhood by the Lord’s Resistance Army
The organization has chosen to issue this report about abuses against children (mainly by the LRA) because thousands of...
March 26, 2011
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Nigeria: Time to end contempt for human rights
The present military government in Nigeria has a record of open contempt for human rights. This report begins with an audit...
March 26, 2011
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Morocco: Continued detention of three brothers who “disappeared” in 1973 (STOP PRESS: released 30 December 1991)
Midhat Rene Bourequat, Bayazid Jacques Bourequat and Ali Auguste Bourequat, three brothers of French nationality, were...
March 26, 2011
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Uganda: Human rights violations by the National Resistance Army
Amnesty International has received persistent reports of human rights violations in 1991 in the northern Ugandan districts...
March 26, 2011
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Senegal: Torture: the Casamance case
Between 1982 and 1989 several hundred people in Casamance region were arrested for political reasons connected with a...
March 26, 2011