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Resounding Vote In Favor of Historic Global Arms Trade Treaty Is a Potential Victory for Human Rights Worldwide
157 governments at the U.N. General Assembly’s First Committee on Disarmament in New York voted on Wednesday in favor of finalizing the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) next March.
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Lawmakers in Viet Nam Should Push for an Immediate Moratorium on the Death Penalty
“We urge lawmakers in Viet Nam...to call for a complete moratorium on executions, with a view of abolishing the death penalty."
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Chinese Authorities Must Release Women’s Rights Activist Mao Hengfeng
The Chinese authorities must immediately release prominent women’s rights activist, Mao Hengfeng, who has been sentenced to one and a half years in a labor camp.
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Safety of Five Death Row Inmates Transferred to Iran’s Evin Prison At Risk
The transfer of five death row inmates from Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj near Tehran to the capital’s Evin Prison has sparked fears about their imminent execution.
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Amnesty International Calls for Independent Probe of Bombings in Bahraini Capital
Amnesty International today condemned a string of bomb blasts in Bahrain’s capital that killed two people and injured a third and demanded an independent probe to determine who is responsible.
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Brazilian Authorities Must Respect Human Rights While Taking Control of Maré Area
Tens of thousands of residents of one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest favelas are being targeted by Amnesty International and NGO partners to ensure they know their human rights ahead…
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Amnesty International Calls for Independent Probe of Security Force Killings of Men and Boys in Northern Nigeria, One Day After Condemning Abuses in New Report on Security Forces
Security forces shot dozens of men and boys from Maiduguri in northern Nigeria, a day after Amnesty International issued a new investigation condemning human rights violations by the security forces…
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Russia Must Reverse Recent Legislation Putting Human Rights Activists and Political Opponents at Risk
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to sign into law a new bill on high treason after Russia’s Parliament approved it on Wednesday, October 31.
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El Salvadorian President Must Recognize State Role in Massacre
More than 200 men, women and children were killed by an elite army unit at the El Calabozo massacre in the northern San Vicente region on August 22, 1982. Three…
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Israeli Authorities Must Release Palestinian Prisoner of Conscience in West Bank
The Israeli military authorities must end their campaign of harassment, intimidation and arbitrary detention against Palestinian activist, Bassem Tamimi, in the occupied West Bank, Amnesty International said today.