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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY BOUREIMA HAMA Children wash their hands with a bucket bearing the lettering 'Unicef' in a camp for internally displaced people (IDP), home to some 300,000 Nigerian refugees and internally displaced by Boko Haram, in Diffa, Niger, on August 17, 2016, ahead of celebrations for World Humanitarian Day on August 19. / AFP / BOUREIMA HAMA (Photo credit should read BOUREIMA HAMA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Nigeria: UNICEF suspended amid absurd smear campaign

Responding to the Nigerian army’s suspension of UNICEF from operations in northeast Nigeria over allegations of spying and collaborating with Boko Haram,…

December 14, 2018

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Amnesty and Sofar Sounds partner for Write for Rights concert and letter writing event

On Saturday, December 8, human rights organization Amnesty International USA in partnership with live music events startup Sofar Sounds will…

November 30, 2018

Ciham has been in detention in Eritrea since she was 15 years old after being arrested attempting to cross from Eritrea into Sudan

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Eritrea: Visiting US envoy must demand action on deplorable record of arbitrary detentions

US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor Nagy, should demand the release of all prisoners arbitrarily detained solely…

November 30, 2018

Nawal Benaissa, 36 yeards-old, is a mother of 4 who joined Hirak early on and became one of its main female leading voices. She took part to several protests with her husband and children and has been very active on social media. Her Facebook profile gained more than 80 000 followers, before authorities asked her to shut down during one of her detention in custody. She was arrested and held in custody for few hours four times between June and September 2017. This last time she was sued and on mid-February 2018, she was sentenced to 10 months suspended sentence and a fine of 500 hundred dirhams for inciting to commit an offence (by speech, cries or threats made in the places where public meetings, either through posters exposed to the public or by any means fulfilling the condition, advertising, including electronically, on paper and by audio-visual channel, if the provocation has not been followed by effect. Article 299 of the penal code). Her lawyer has appealed the sentence, the Court of Appeal has yet to rule. Benaissa responded to the court's decision on her Facebook page by expressing her continued support for the Rif protests. "I am proud to take part in the protests in the region and I denounce the imprisonment of Hirak activists. I demand their immediate release," she wrote. Few weeks ago, she moved from the northern city of Al Hoceima to another Moroccan city in order to flee harassment from authorities.

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Amnesty International launches world’s biggest human rights campaign

Women human rights defenders around the world are facing unprecedented levels of abuse, intimidation and violence, said Amnesty International as…

November 28, 2018

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Israel: ‘Rogue’ NSO Group must have licence revoked over controversial surveillance software

Amnesty International is taking legal advice in order to revoke the export licence of Israel-based NSO Group, after it was…

November 28, 2018

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Reports of torture and sexual harassment of detained activists in Saudi Arabia

Several Saudi Arabian activists, including a number of women, who have been arbitrarily detained without charge since May 2018 in…

November 20, 2018

Aung San Suu Kyi collects the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience award (2009) at the Electric Burma Concert held her in honour in Dublin, Ireland, 18 June 2012. Aung San Suu Kyi was presented with the award by Bono and Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty.

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Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of Amnesty’s highest honor

Amnesty International announced today that it has withdrawn its highest honor, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, from Aung San Suu…

November 12, 2018

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - OCTOBER 28: Jair Bolsonaro, far-right lawmaker and presidential candidate of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), arrives to cast his vote on October 28, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Ricardo Moraes-Pool/Getty Images)

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Brazil: Toxic speech must not become government policy

Reacting to the election of Jair Bolsonaro and Hamilton Mourão as president and vice president of Brazil, Amnesty International said…

October 28, 2018

Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh is better known through her nick name Me Nam or Mother Mushroom in English. She is a blogger and a prisoner of conscience; the authorities in Vietnam arrested her in 2016 and sentenced her to 10 years of jail in 2017.

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Viet Nam: Mother Mushroom’s freedom should spark release of countless more peaceful critics

Responding to news of the release of blogger “Mother Mushroom” in Viet Nam, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for…

October 17, 2018

'Showing our love for Hungary' on 26 April 2018, ahead of a European Parliament meeting on Hungary, at which the Hungarian Foreign Minister addressed MEPs .EIO Director Iverna McGowan spoke to the media.

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Hungary: Amnesty launches legal challenge to shameful law on migration that targets civil society

Amnesty International will challenge in court the constitutionality of Hungary’s controversial law that criminalizes with up to one year in…

October 15, 2018

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China: “Where Are They”: Time for answers about mass detention in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

Families of up to one million predominately Muslim people from Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region detained in mass “re-education” drive demand…

September 23, 2018

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Amnesty Urges Accountability for Hurricane Maria With Projections Onto Trump Hotel, FEMA

On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Amnesty International is urging accountability from the Trump Administration for its negligence…

September 19, 2018