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UN Committee tells Cameroon to put an end to torture by security forces in the fight against Boko Haram
Cameroon must act swiftly on the recommendations published today by the UN Committee against Torture and put an end to the widespread use of torture by security forces fighting Boko…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Leader of Peace Community Threatened (Colombia: UA 263.17)
Paramilitary groups continue their incursions and threats against the people of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia, and the leaders who have reported these abuses nationally and…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Human Rights Defender Acquitted Of All Charges (Zimbabwe: UA 169.16)
Pastor Evan Mawarire, a human rights defender in Zimbabwe, was acquitted of the charge of ‘subversion of constitutional elected government’ on 29 November.
Press Release
Secret Policies on Lethal Strikes and Raids Puts Lives in Danger
According to reports, the U.S. government has adopted secret policies allowing lethal strikes and raids to be conducted away from the battlefield, even when there is no imminent threat to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Victory! Human Rights Defender Acquitted Of All Charges (Zimbabwe: UA 169.16)
Pastor Evan Mawarire, a human rights defender in Zimbabwe, was acquitted of the charge of ‘subversion of constitutional elected government’ on 29 November.
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Confined Communities In Riosucio, Chocó (Colombia: UA 178.17)
Several Embera Indigenous communities and the Afro-descendent community of Taparal in the department of Chocó, Colombia, find themselves confined and terrified due to the presence of the Gaitanistas Self-Defence Forces…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Papuan Worker Disappeared Since 7 November (Indonesia: UA 262.17)
Martinus Beanal, a Papuan worker has disappeared since 7 November in the midst of alleged escalated armed clashes in Utikini village, Tembagapura District, Mimika Regency, Papua Province. The Police have…
Update
Board letter to McConnell re Rohingya
December 5, 2017 Senator Mitch McConnell Majority Leader S-230 Capitol Building Washington, DC 20510 Re: Amnesty International USA Urges Senate to Pass the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act (S.…
Press Release
UN: China fails to scupper resolution on Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingya
Responding to the failed attempt by China, Philippines and Burundi to vote down a UN Human Rights Council resolution on the situation of the Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: New Convictions For “Inciting Debauchery” (Egypt: UA 231.17)
16 individuals sentenced to three years in prison and three years’ probation for “debauchery”, raising the total number of individuals sentenced for their perceived sexual orientation to 49 since 22…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Detained Rights Lawyer Further Ill-Treated (China: UA 227.17)
Sixty-year-old human rights lawyer Li Yuhan reported to her lawyer that she was left unconscious and unattended for hours after detention officers poured cold water on her during a bath…
Press Release
Philippines: Police reinstatement in “drug war” threatens catastrophic return to mass killing
Responding to the news that President Duterte has ordered the police to resume their role in supporting his administration’s so-called “war on drugs,” James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director of Southeast…
