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Kavanaugh Confirmation Is Devastating

Responding to news that the Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court, Daphne Eviatar, Amnesty International USA's Director of Security with Human Rights said:   “Kavanaugh’s…

October 6, 2018
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Nobel Peace Prize: Courageous work of Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad highlights need to fight impunity for rape in war

In response to news that Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yezidi human rights activist Nadia Murad have jointly won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Kumi Naidoo…

October 5, 2018
Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad speaks as she attends 'The Fight against Impunity for Atrocities: Bringing Da'esh to Justice' at the United Nations Headaquarters on March 9, 2017 in New York. / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)

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Next government in Cameroon must tackle human rights crises in violence-hit regions

Cameroon’s next government must urgently tackle human rights crises in which hundreds of civilians have been killed this year alone and thousands internally displaced amid violence by security forces, Boko…

October 4, 2018
A woman walks into Nigeria from Cameroon at a checkpoint border between Cameroon and Nigeria, in Mfum, in Cross Rivers State, southeast Nigeria, on February 1, 2018. The UN refugee agency on February 1, 2018 criticised Nigeria for breaching international agreements after the leader of a Cameroonian anglophone separatist movement and his supporters were extradited at Yaounde's request. Cameroon's government is fighting an insurgency by a group demanding a separate state for two regions that are home to most of the country's anglophones, who account for about a fifth of the population. Thousands of Cameroonians fled to the remote border region with Nigeria to escape from the violences in English-speaking southwest Cameroon. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Peru: Decision to overturn Fujimori pardon confirms that victims’ rights must take priority over political decisions

In response to the decision of the Preparatory Trial Court of the Supreme Court of Justice to overturn the pardon granted to former President Alberto Fujimori on December 24, 2017,…

October 3, 2018
Peru's former President (1990-2000) Alberto Fujimori, arrives for the reading of the verdict on charges of embezzling state funds and using them to manipulate the media, at a police base in Lima on January 8, 2015. . The former leader is already serving a 25-year sentence over killings committed by a government-backed death squad. AFP PHOTO/ERNESTO BENAVIDES (Photo credit should read ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images)