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Video showing beheading of boy further evidence of abuses by armed groups in Syria

A video showing the beheading of a boy by an armed opposition group in northern Syria is the latest abhorrent…

July 20, 2016

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Nepal: Torture and Coerced Confessions

A new report published today by Amnesty International reveals how members of the indigenous Tharu community in Nepal’s Tarai plains…

July 19, 2016

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Alarm over reports of high civilian death toll from US-led coalition airstrikes on Manbij in Syria

U.S.-led coalition forces carrying out airstrikes in Syria must redouble efforts to prevent civilian deaths and investigate possible violations of…

July 19, 2016

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Nepal must investigate police torture of Tharu community members

A new report published today by Amnesty International reveals how members of the indigenous Tharu community in Nepal’s Tarai plains…

July 18, 2016

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Human rights in grave danger following coup attempt and subsequent crackdown in Turkey

Human rights in Turkey are in peril following a bloody coup attempt on July 15, which resulted in the deaths…

July 18, 2016

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South Sudan: Security forces deliberately preventing people from leaving the country

South Sudanese security forces are deliberately blocking people from leaving the country in violation of their right to freedom of…

July 14, 2016

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More than 1,000 people accused of supporting Boko Haram held in horrific conditions in Cameroon

More than 1,000 people, many arrested arbitrarily, are being held in horrific conditions and dozens are dying from disease and…

July 13, 2016

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More than 1,000 people accused of supporting Boko Haram held in horrific conditions in Cameroon

More than 1,000 people, many arrested arbitrarily, are being held in horrific conditions and dozens are dying from disease and…

July 13, 2016

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Right cause, wrong means: Human rights violated and justice denied in Cameroon’s fight against Boko Haram

More than 1,000 people, many arrested arbitrarily, are being held in horrific conditions and dozens are dying from disease and…

July 13, 2016

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Right cause, wrong means: Human rights violated and justice denied in Cameroon’s fight against Boko Haram

More than 1,000 people, many arrested arbitrarily, are being held in horrific conditions and dozens are dying from disease and…

July 13, 2016

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Police must establish fate and whereabouts of disappeared Bangladesh hostage

Bangladeshi authorities must immediately establish the fate and whereabouts of a surviving hostage from the recent Dhaka restaurant attack who…

July 12, 2016

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Hundreds disappeared and tortured amid wave of brutal repression in Egypt

Egypt’s National Security Agency (NSA) is abducting, torturing and forcibly disappearing people in an effort to intimidate opponents and wipe…

July 12, 2016