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Former Labour Home Secretary John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan walks past Vote leave placards in Westminster (Photo credit should read Amer Ghazzal / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

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Deal or No Deal, Brexit Poses “Serious Human Rights Concerns”

The on-going uncertainty around Brexit poses serious human rights issues, Amnesty International said today.

September 9, 2019

View of a fire near Charagua in Bolivia, on the border with Paraguay, south of the Amazon basin, on August 29, 2019. - Fires have destroyed 1.2 million hectares of forest and grasslands in Bolivia this year, the government said on Wednesday, although environmentalists claim the true figure is much greater. (Photo by Aizar RALDES / AFP) (Photo credit should read AIZAR RALDES/AFP/Getty Images)

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Bolivian Government Must Suspend Presidential Decree and Investigate Causes of Forest Fires

In an open letter published today, Amnesty International called on the government of President Evo Morales to suspend the July…

September 9, 2019

People hold placards with an appeal to free Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov during a rally in Kiev on July 1, 2018, to demand the release Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. - Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Russia, who have spent more than a month on hunger strike in jail to demand Moscow release Ukrainian political prisoners. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP) (Photo credit should read GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images)

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Filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and others freed in prisoner swap

Reacting to the news that Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and dozens of other detainees have been released as a part…

September 7, 2019

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - SEPTEMBER 05: Protesters gather to hand-over a memorandum of grievances during gender-based violence demonstration outside Parliament, following the rape and murder of UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana on September 05, 2019 in Cape Town, South Africa. While accepting a memorandum of demands from the protesters, Ramaphosa admitted that he will be addressing the issue of violence against women and children and that a state of emergency should be declared. (Photo by Ziyaad Douglas/Gallo Images via Getty Images )

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Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Offenders in South Africa Must Face Justice

In response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the nation and hundreds who had gathered in Cape Town to protest…

September 5, 2019

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Killing of Afghani Human Rights Defender Is A War Crime

Responding to the news that Abdul Samad Amiri, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission’s acting director in Ghor province, was…

September 5, 2019

TOPSHOT - A protestor gestures and holds a placard during a demonstration in front of the South African Embassy in Lusaka on September 4, 2019 to protest against Xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in the Rainbow Nation. (Photo by SALIM DAWOOD / AFP) (Photo credit should read SALIM DAWOOD/AFP/Getty Images)

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Years of Impunity for Xenophobic Crimes Driving the Latest Attacks in South Africa

The ongoing and escalating attacks against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, and looting of foreign owned shops in South Africa,…

September 4, 2019

Israeli MPs sit before a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset (Israeli parliament) on May 29, 2019, at the Knesset in Jerusalem. - Parliament voted 74-45 in favour of dissolving itself and setting elections for September 17. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Discriminatory Measures Undermine Palestinian Representation in Knesset

Palestinians elected to Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, are being targeted by discriminatory regulations and legislation that undermine their ability to…

September 3, 2019

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Another Weekend, Another Carnage That Could Have Been Prevented

Responding to shootings in Midland and in Odessa, Texas tonight, Ernest Coverson the campaign manager of Amnesty International USA End…

August 31, 2019

Bina Bala, a 22-year-old woman who survived a massacre of Hindu villagers by the armed group, Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on 25 August 2017. She is pictured in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh in September 2017, where she was briefly before being returned to Myanmar in October 2017. She told Amnesty International. “[The men] held knives and long iron rods. They tied our hands behind our backs and blindfolded us. I asked what they were doing. One of them replied, ‘You and Rakhine are the same, you have a different religion, you can’t live here. He spoke the [Rohingya] language. They asked what belongings we had, then they beat us. Eventually I gave them my gold and money.”

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Bangladeshi Parents Fear for Lost Generation of Rohingya Children

Two years after a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign forced around 700,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh, refugees are still…

August 29, 2019

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Human Rights Defenders in Afghanistan Under Attack From the Authorities and Armed Groups

Afghanistan’s human rights community is under intensifying attacks from both the authorities and armed groups as human rights defenders and…

August 29, 2019

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Syrian Families Left Alone to Find Answers About Disappeared Relatives

The families of tens of thousands of people who have been forcibly disappeared or abducted since the onset of the…

August 29, 2019

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Filmmaker Sentenced To One Year In Prison In Myanmar For Facebook Post

Responding to the decision by the Insein Township Court to sentence filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi to one year…

August 29, 2019