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GET ON THE Bus 2018
GET ON THE BUS 2018 will be held on Friday, April 6th, and featured actions focused on Sri Lanka, Tibet/China,Iran, Sudan, Honduras and the United States. Get on the Bus…
Press Release
Syria: UN Human Rights Council must ensure those responsible for atrocities in Eastern Ghouta are held to account
Responding to the impending vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council on a resolution on the situation in Eastern Ghouta, Kevin Whelan, Senior Advocate at Amnesty International said:
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Indigenous Peoples Advocate Arrested for “Sedition” (India: UA 49.18)
Upendra Nayak, a 65 year old lawyer who defends the rights of indigenous Adivasi people, was arrested by the Odisha state police in eastern India on 20 February 2018 for…
Press Release
Honduras: Failure to identify those behind Berta Cáceres’ murder puts other activists at risk
The Honduran authorities’ failure to identify those who ordered the brutal murder of the environmental human rights defender Berta Cáceres and bring them to justice puts hundreds of human rights…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Health Fears for Relocated Jailed Activist (Viet Nam: UA 233.16)
Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, known as blogger Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom) was secretly moved over 900km away to a prison with deplorable conditions, that is far away from her family.…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Maximum Prison Sentence for Anti-Formosa Activist (Viet Nam: UA 126.17)
Environmental activist Hoàng Đức Bình was sentenced to 14 years in prison for criticizing the Formosa disaster and government-critical blogging; one of the harshest sentences ever delivered to a Vietnamese…
Press Release
Egypt: Use of banned cluster bombs in North Sinai confirmed by Amnesty International
Analysis of a Video released by the Egyptian Armed Forces proves beyond doubt that banned cluster munitions have been used in recent airstrikes in North Sinai, Amnesty International said today.
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Urgent Action Victory! – Youth Activist Unconditionally Released (Chad: UA 44.18)
Alain Didah Kemba, spokesperson of the Chadian youth movement IYINA, was unconditionally released on 26 February after being presented before the prosecutor. Three days earlier, he had been released from…
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Afghanistan: Civilian lives must be at the heart of the Kabul Process
The Kabul Process conference must put the protection of Afghan civilians and accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the heart of its discussions this week, Amnesty International…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Youth Activist Unconditionally Released (Chad: UA 44.18)
Alain Didah Kemba, spokesperson of the Chadian youth movement IYINA, was unconditionally released on 26 February after being presented before the prosecutor. Three days earlier, he had been released from…
Press Release
Syria: Hundreds of civilian lives at risk as Afrin offensive escalates
Turkish military, and to a lesser extent Kurdish forces, are carrying out indiscriminate attacks in the embattled Syrian towns of Afrin and Azaz respectively in northern Aleppo, killing scores of…
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Syria: Alleged chemical weapons pact with North Korea would represent ‘a betrayal of humanity’
Reacting to a New York Times article alleging that an unpublished United Nations report reveals that from 2012 to 2017 North Korea secretly shipped supplies to Syria that could be…