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While the Egyptian Army troops were being hailed as major heroes for siding with the protesters and effectively refusing to engage in violent acts against those demonstrating for democracy in Egypt, on March 9th things suddenly changed when soldiers..
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President Obama announced US support for India’s quest for permanent membership of a reformed UN Security Council in the years ahead despite India’s bad human...
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Across Africa hundreds of thousands of people each year are left homeless when they
are forcibly evicted from their homes by the authorities. In most cases evictions...
made popular Nov 18 2010
A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man’s spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another...
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A desperate picture of the health of North Korea’s population is painted by a report describing a country of stunted children, where the hungry eat poisonous...
made popular Jul 15 2010
Fear of sexual violence is keeping poor Kenyan women away from communal toilets, and increasing the risk of disease, Amnesty International says.
In a report on...
made popular Jul 8 2010
New Australian prime minister Julia Gillard wants to build a refugee processing centre in East Timor to process asylum seekers arriving in Australia from Afghanistan...
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Amnesty International is calling for greater sensitivity to Europe’s Roma population. They say that ten million Roma live across the continent, and by in large...
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There will be a worldwide ban on cluster bombs this year after Burkina Faso and Moldova ratified the international cluster munitions treaty. The ban needed at least 30...
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Amnesty International expressed disappointment Wednesday over a Mexican court’s refusal to overturn the 21-year sentences imposed on two indigenous women for the...
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Amnesty International and Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) have disclosed that some Nigerians and other Africans are being held without trials...
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Gita Sahgal, daughter of novelist Nayantara Sahgal and granddaughter of Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit, has been suspended from her job with Amnesty...
made popular Feb 11 2010
Nigerian police are carrying out a shocking level of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International says.
The rights group’s...
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Iran has sentenced an accused member of an exiled opposition group to death, Amnesty International said Friday in an appeal for Tehran to rescind the ruling.
Mohammad...
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Nigeria’s main militant group said its fighters had attacked an oil facility belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta on Monday, in the face of an...
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Irene Khan, the human rights group’s secretary-general, was speaking in Harare after its first high-level visit to the country in a decade.
The fact that she has...
made popular Jun 19 2009
The global economic downturn has aggravated human rights violations and distracted attention from abuses, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
The world faced a...
made popular May 28 2009
The LTTE and Sri Lankan government have prolonged the bloodbath of the Tamil civilians. One could observe the sharp compassion that had been wielding from every...
made popular May 15 2009
A law to protect women in Mexico has had no impact in the two years since its inception, leaving the safety of many Mexican women at risk.
made popular Jan 31 2009
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President Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States Of America.
On his shoulders, he is carrying a lot of responsibility which comes hand in hand...
made popular Jan 19 2009
Amnesty International has began a campaign named “Obama 100 days” to get him to disband the infamous Guantanamo prison for “war against...
made popular Jan 16 2009
Universal jurisdiction addresses the phenomenon of impunity or that which arises when a state fails to investigate its own human rights violations.
Amnesty...
made popular Jul 16 2008
European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to allow undocumented migrants to be held in detention centers for up to 18 months and banned from European Union territory for...
made popular Jun 19 2008
China reiterates that it had ruled Tibet for centuries but Tibetans say their country was independent during that era.
According to a latest report by Human Rights...
made popular Jun 19 2008
The human rights organisation Amnesty International has alleged in a report issued on Tuesday that the Mozambican police are killing and torturing people with near...
made popular May 1 2008
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Mozambique police of killing and torturing people with impunity as the country struggles to deal with...
made popular Apr 29 2008
Ethiopian troops were accused yesterday of slitting the throats of seven Somali men during a raid on a Mogadishu mosque that left 21 people dead, including the...
made popular Apr 25 2008
“The Bonfire of the Vanities” is of course the book by Tom Wolfe. I am only really familiar with the film adaptation but it is a fine story. Of things Tom...
made popular Apr 24 2008
An American expert in torture techniques has denounced his government for allowing “waterboarding” to be practised against terror suspects, just as a...
made popular Apr 22 2008
Iran’s penal code lays down the size of stones crowds should use to bludgeon adulterers to death, Amnesty International has discovered.
made popular Jan 15 2008
24 children have already been throttled to death in Iran since 1990 and 71 more are in the list ready to face the execution, if you’re able to read between the...
made popular Jun 28 2007
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