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Dow Olympic Contract ‘Shocking’ in Light of Bhopal Disaster Failures, Says Amnesty International
Chemical giant Dow's high profile contract with London's 2012 Olympic Games is a slap in the face for the survivors of India's Bhopal poison gas disaster who, 27 years on,…
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Wounded Patients in Syria’s Hospitals are Tortured, Along with Medical Staff Suspected of Treating Injured Protesters
Human Rights Organization Documents Cases of Injured Protesters Being Beaten by Security Agents in Hospitals Contact: Suzanne Trimel, 212-633-4150, [email protected] (New York) -- The Syrian government has turned hospitals into…
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Climate of fear in Syria’s hospitals as patients and medics targeted
The Syrian authorities have been blocking and manipulating access to health care for people wounded during the unrest that has swept across the country since mid-March 2011, putting many lives…
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Syrian Government Targets Wounded And Health Workers
Syrian authorities have turned hospitals and medical staff into instruments of repression in their efforts to crush the unprecedented mass protests and demonstrations.
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Amnesty International Urges Libya to Investigate Whether al-Gaddafi Death was a War Crime
Amnesty International today urged the new Libyan authorities to ensure a full, independent and impartial investigation into how Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi died, saying if he was deliberately killed in captivity…
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Exciting Progress for Health Care Equality!
Two new bills would help combat racial disparities in health care in the US.
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Choosing To Be Executed, Or Choosing To End Executions?
Gary Haugen is "volunteering" to be executed in Oregon. Oregon's Governor should prevent the execution and lead his state away from capital punishment.
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Persecution of Baha’is in Iran is Focus of Documentary Film With Screenings in New York, Los Angeles and Boston by Amnesty International USA
On Friday, October 28, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) will co-host the U.S. premiere of the documentary film "Education Under Fire,” which examines the persecution of Iran’s Baha’is and their systematic…
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Civilians in Central African Republic Bear Brunt of Decades of Violence and Abuse
Local and foreign armed groups in the Central African Republic are still killing, abducting, torturing and raping civilians, as well as burning houses and looting property, Amnesty International said in…
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Central African Republic: Civilians bear the brunt of decades of violence and abuses
The people of the Central African Republic have suffered decades of violence and human rights abuse. Government forces, armed groups and criminal gangs have killed unarmed men, women and children…
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Malawi's Democracy Continues to Unravel
Crackdown on peaceful protesters, attacks on activists, the expulsion of the British ambassador -- Malawi's democracy is unraveling.
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New Film on Persecution of Baha'is to be Released Just as Iran Slaps Harsh Sentences on Baha'i Educators
Seven educators with the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education were sentenced to a total of thirty years in prison.