Nigeria: Tiger Base police unit involved in rampant violations including extrajudicial executions, torture and extortion
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Detainees routinely taken out of cell and shot dead Suspects tortured to make confessions Families of suspects that died suddenly…
USA: One year into President Trump’s return to office, authoritarian practices are eroding human rights
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Marking one year since President Trump returned to office, Amnesty International today rang the alarm bells on increasing authoritarian practices in the United States…
Nepal: “We went there to raise our voice, not to be killed”: Nepal’s deadly crackdown on protesters
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This briefing exposes Nepal’s failure to uphold peaceful assembly during “Gen-Z” protests on 8 September 2025, where 19 were killed…
USA: Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome in Florida
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This report presents Amnesty International’s findings from a research trip to southern Florida in September 2025, to document the human…
Thematic paper series no. 5: Police and children
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Police in their daily work mainly deal with adult people, which means that their policies, instructions, and manner in which they approach people, through…
Colombia: Insist, Persist, Resist and never Give Up?
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This report analyses the impact of the intervention of the Military Criminal Justice system on the persistent impunity for human…
China: Courts used as tools of systematic repression against human rights defenders
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Chinese courts are systematically weaponizing vague national security and public order laws to silence human rights defenders, Amnesty International said…
Ecuador: It was the military. I saw them: Enforced disappearances in Ecuador at the hands of the armed forces
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In this research briefing, Amnesty International analyses five cases of enforced disappearance that occurred in Ecuador in 2024, in the…
Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies
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Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab…
Azerbaijan: From Newsroom to Cell. Persecution of Independent Journalists
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In Azerbaijan, critical journalists face persecution and severe reprisals for their work, including arbitrary arrests, fabricated charges, unfair trials and…
Venezuela: Detentions without a trace: The crime of enforced disappearance in Venezuela
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The Venezuelan authorities have committed, and continue to commit, enforced disappearances as part of their policy of repression of dissidents…
Mexico: The search for disappeared persons is a high-risk activity for collectives of women searchers
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Women who search for their loved ones among the more than 128,000 disappeared and missing persons in Mexico additionally face…
South Korea: Amnesty International Korea releases new report “Right of the People, Duty of the State: Freedom of Peaceful Assembly in South Korea”
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Despite Amnesty International’s continued calls for the revision of the Assembly and Demonstration Act (ADA), the law still fails to…
Cambodia: Government allows slavery and torture to flourish inside hellish scamming compounds
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Amnesty visits more than 50 scamming compounds in 18-month long research Testimony from survivors details human trafficking, slavery and forced…
Türkiye: Unlawful use of force by police against protesters in March “may amount to torture”
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Turkish authorities must carry out prompt, independent, impartial and effective investigations into alleged human rights violations committed by law enforcement…
Argentina: Two years after brutal repression in Jujuy, Amnesty International report exposes impunity
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Two years after the constitutional debate and waves of social protests that gripped the province of Jujuy, there have been…
Georgia: Women protesters are targeted with escalating violence and gender-based reprisals
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Police in Georgia are increasingly using gender-based violence including sexist insults, threats of sexual violence and unlawful and degrading strip…
USA: Dehumanized by design: Human rights violations in El Paso
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This briefing presents Amnesty International’s findings and observations from an April 2025 visit to an immigration detention center in Texas.
Mozambique: Protest under attack: Human rights violations during Mozambique’s post-2024 election crackdown
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Mozambican security forces used reckless and unnecessary force in a widespread crackdown on protests following last October’s election, resulting in…
Serbia: Technical Briefing: Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware
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Amnesty International has found evidence that two journalists at the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (“BIRN”), an award-winning network of…
Global: Electric shock equipment widely abused by law enforcement agencies due to alarming lack of regulation
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States and companies are manufacturing, promoting and selling electric shock equipment that is being used for torture and other ill-treatment,…
UK: Police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with crime predicting tech – new report
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A new 120 – page report from Amnesty International UK ‘Automated Racism – How police data and algorithms code…
Amnesty’s Guidelines on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly
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Peaceful assemblies have been the driving force behind some of the most powerful social movements, exposing injustice and abuse, demanding…
The Netherlands: Recording dissent: Camera surveillance at peaceful protests in the Netherlands
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In the Netherlands, the police monitor peaceful protesters with highly advanced cameras such as drones and video surveillance cars. This…
Peru: Who called the shots?
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The body of evidence presented in this report reveals a series of actions and omissions from the highest levels of…
Europe: Under Protected and Over Restricted: The state of the right to protest in 21 European countries
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Peaceful protest is a powerful and public way for people to make their voices heard. It has long been a…
Guinea: Wounded youth: Care and justice urgently needed for the victims of unlawful use of force in Guinea
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This report looks at the situation of people seriously injured by the forces of law and order during protests in…
Sri Lanka: ‘Ready to suppress any protest’: Unlawful use of weapons during protests
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Sri Lanka’s law enforcement officials engaged in the violent repression of protests must be held accountable for committing widespread human…
Less lethal weapons
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These six sheets give a brief overview of less lethal weapons including their potential effects and risks. They summarize when…
Iran: “They violently raped me”: Sexual violence weaponized to crush Iran’s ‘Woman life freedom’ uprising
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Intelligence and security forces committed horrific acts of rape and other forms of sexual violence against protesters arbitrarily detained during…
El Salvador: Behind the veil of popularity: Repression and regression of human rights in El Salvador
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This report is the result of three fact-finding missions and 83 interviews, which document the installation of a context marked…
Ben ni Walen: Mobilising for human rights using participatory theatre
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Ben ni Walen: Mobilising for human rights using participatory theatre Ben ni Walen presents seven participatory drama methods that incorporate…
Ukweli: Investigating Human Rights Violations
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The Ukweli series were developed to be used to monitor, document and report human rights violations. These publications provide detailed…
Publications on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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HURICAP's latest publication, a handbook on ESC rights, targets civil society organizations and human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa.
Biashara na Haki: Impacts of Businesses on Human Rights
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The "Biashara na Haki" series addresses the need for human rights education on corporate issues for African NGOs and CBOs, as identified by HURICAP's partners.
Netherlands: Unchecked Power: ID Checks and Collection of Data from Peaceful Protesters in the Netherlands
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States are increasingly imposing obstacles to the right to protest. In the Netherlands, authorities are turning to surveillance tools, collecting…
Peru: Lethal racism: Extrajudicial executions and unlawful use of force by Peru’s security forces
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Since 7 December 2022, Peru has experienced one of its deepest political and social crises of recent decades. Thousands of…
Nicaragua: A cry for justice: Five years of oppression and resistance
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Nicaragua is experiencing a grave human rights crisis characterized by a crackdown on protest and constant attacks on political dissidents,…
Kinetic Impact Projectiles (KIPs) in law enforcement
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Responding to the frequent misuse across the globe of kinetic impact projectiles, commonly known as rubber bullets, today Amnesty International…
Thailand: “We are reclaiming our future”: Children’s right to peaceful assembly in Thailand
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“We Are Reclaiming Our Future” examines key human rights issues and obstacles impeding children’s full enjoyment of their right to…
Colombia: The police does not care for me: Sexual violence and other gender-based violence in the 2021 National Strike
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In this report, Amnesty International reveals repeated and generalized practices of violence against women, children and LGBTIQ+ people in the…
Russia: “You Will Be Arrested Anyway”: Reprisals Against Monitors and Media Workers Reporting from Protests
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Over the last 10 years, the human rights situation in Russia has been continuously deteriorating. The authorities have severely curtailed…
Pakistan: Braving the Storm: Enforced disappearances and the right to protest in Pakistan
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After exhausting all avenues, families of the disappeared and activists are forced to publicly campaign and peacefully protest against enforced…
Iran: They are shooting brazenly: Iran’s militarized response to May 2022 protests
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This research briefing documents how Iranian security forces used unlawful force, including live ammunition, birdshot, teargas and watercannon, to crush…
Protect the Protest! Why we must save our right to protest
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Amnesty International has long worked to protect and expand the power of protest in defending and promoting human rights. For…
Striking weapons in law enforcement
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Recent footage of police in India attacking protesters and detainees with batons highlights the urgent need for law enforcement agencies…
Iran: In death’s waiting room: Deaths in custody following deliberate denial of medical care in Iran’s prisons
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This briefing documents how Iranian officials are committing shocking violations of the right to life by deliberately denying ailing prisoners…
Sri Lanka: Still no answers: An update on the rights of victims of enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka
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Victims of human rights violations in the context of the war and its aftermath, bravely continuing their quest for answers,…
Colombia: Shoot on Sight: Eye Trauma in the Context of the National Strike
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Colombia: Excessive force by riot police during National Strike left more than 100 people with eye trauma Violence and repression…
Living Ghosts: The devastating impact of enforced disappearances in Pakistan
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Living Ghosts, documents how enforced disappearance – in which state agents deny holding an individual or refuse to provide information…
Xenophobic machines: Discrimination through unregulated use of algorithms in the Dutch childcare benefits scandal
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Social security enforcement agencies worldwide are increasingly automating their processes in the hope of detecting fraud. The Netherlands is at…
Sri Lanka: From burning houses to burning bodies: Anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka’s Muslim community have faced incidents of violence, discrimination and harassment for decades. Most recently, since 2013, there have…
Chile: Criminal liability of commanders for omission in connection with crimes committed during the social unrest
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Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to analyse the criminal liability for omission of the authorities and commanders…
Netherlands: Still no Safety: Venezuelans denied protection in Curaçao
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Since Amnesty lnternational’s initials report in 2018, the rights of Venezuelans who have fled to Curaçao are still violated. They…
Afghanistan: The fate of thousands hanging in the balance: Afghanistan’s fall into the hands of the Taliban
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The Taliban have attempted to portray to the world that they will respect human rights- however the ground reality is…
France Police Violence: A new report by Amnesty International highlights abusive and illegal use of force during the Teknival rave in Redon, in June 2021
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As this week, the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, closes the Beauvau security consultations, which aim to…
Amnesty International: Blunt Force – Investigating the misuse of police batons and related weapons
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Time and again, law enforcement officials are too quick to resort to the use of force, often against peaceful protesters exercising their rights to freedom of…
Syria: “You’re going to your death” Violations against Syrian refugees returning to Syria
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Syrian intelligence officers have subjected women, children and men returning to Syria to unlawful or arbitrary detention, torture and other…
Nicaragua: Where are they?: Enforced disappearance as a strategy of repression
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Since 28 May 2021, the government of Daniel Ortega has pursued a new phase of its repressive strategy. Characteristic elements…
Russia: No place for protest
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The right to freedom of peaceful assembly is a fundamental human right enshrined both in international and regional treaties to…
Chemical irritants in law enforcement
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Across the world, from the streets of Thailand to Philadelphia (USA), from Greece to Chile, the police continue to use…
Climate change, justice and human rights
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This collection of ten essays explores the opportunities, threats and difficulties at the nexus of human rights and climate change.
Human Rights Committee 2nd Draft General Comment on the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
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In November 2019, during its 127th session, the Human Rights Committee finalised its first reading of draft General Comment 37…
Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy: China
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Essaybundel: wat betekent de toenemende invloed van China voor de internationale bescherming en bevordering van mensenrechten?
PHRP Expert Meeting on Predictive Policing
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On 20.-21. May 2019, the Police and Human Right Programme (PHRP) of Amnesty International Netherlands held an expert meeting on…
Sri Lanka: Executions will not end drug-related crime
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Executions will not end drug-related crime in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka plans to revive the death penalty 43 years after the last execution was carried out.
Dominican Republic: Police routinely use rape and commit other forms of torture to punish women sex workers
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Police in the Dominican Republic routinely rape, beat, humiliate and verbally abuse women sex workers
Projectile electric-shock weapons: An Amnesty International position paper
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Projectile electric-shock weapons (PESWs) have the potential to cause serious injury or even death. Thus, whilst this weapon may have…
Denmark: Pervasive “rape culture” and endemic impunity for rapists exposed
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Demand grows for rape laws to recognise need for consent Denmark’s reputation for gender equality masks a society with…
Madagascar: Unjustified, excessive and prolonged pre-trial detention keeps thousands in life-threatening prison conditions
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People who have not been found guilty of any crime are dying in Madagascar’s prisons due to appalling conditions,…
Chad: People forced to pay a heavy price for harsh austerity measures
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A host of austerity measures implemented by the Chadian authorities is pushing people into deeper poverty, undermining access to necessary health care and putting education beyond the reach of many, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.
Short paper series no 4: Police and human rights defenders
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In 2018, PHRP finalised the fourth paper of the short paper series on police and human rights defenders. Across the world, more and more human rights defenders focus on policing related issues or come into contact with police while carrying out their human rights activities.
Zimbabwe: Elections offer a chance to break with decades of gross human rights violations
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Zimbabwe's election will take place in the context of decades of politically motivated gross human rights violations, including mass killings, the forced disappearance of critics and suppression of peaceful protesters.
Malawi: Impunity fuels killings of people with albinism for their body parts
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Malawi: Impunity fuels killings of people with albinism for their body parts
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This database is an initiative of the Police and Human Rights Programme (PHRP) of the Dutch Section of Amnesty International.
Online abuse of women thrives as Twitter fails to respect women’s rights
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On the day Twitter celebrates 12 years since the first tweet, Amnesty launches a new campaign challenging the company’s…
Myanmar: Fresh evidence of ongoing ethnic cleansing as military starves, abducts and robs Rohingya
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The Myanmar security forces’ devastating campaign against the Rohingya population in northern Rakhine State is far from over, Amnesty…
Zimbabwe: Inconsistent laws and sexual taboos put adolescent girls’ health and futures at risk
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Adolescent girls are being put at risk of harmful consequences, including dying in childbirth, in Zimbabwe because inconsistent laws…
Colombia: Government fails to keep civilians safe as new threats go unchallenged
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A year on from the signing of the Peace Agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas…
Mexico/Central America: Authorities turningtheir backs on LGBTI refugees
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The lives and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex people (LGBTI) from violence-ridden El Salvador, Guatemala and…
Philippines: ‘Battle of Marawi’ leaves trail of death and destruction
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Civilians on the island of Mindanao paid a high price with dozens killed and widespread destruction of homes and…
Thailand: Hard line on refugees leaves thousands vulnerable and at risk
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With the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis developing on its doorstep, Thailand must take concrete action to reverse its…
Chad: Increasing use of repressive laws amid brutal crackdown on human rights activists
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Human rights defenders, citizens’ movements, unionists and journalists critical of the government are facing growing danger as the government…
Peru: Authorities neglect Indigenous Peoples exposed to contaminated water
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The Peruvian government is neglecting the health of hundreds of Indigenous people whose only sources of water are contaminated…
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Last chance for justice for over 20,000 wartime sexual violence survivors
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A quarter of a century after the start of the conflict, more than 20,000, survivors of wartime sexual violence…
Mexico: Arbitrary detentions taint “new” justice system
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The toxic combination of a flawed judicial system, untrained police officers and widespread impunity are encouraging arbitrary detentions and…
India: Overuse of pre-trial detention continues to violate detainees’ rights
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Legal safeguards to prevent excessive pretrial detention are routinely flouted across states in India, leading to the violations of…
Rwanda: Decades of attacks, repression and killings set the scene for next month’s election
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Two decades of attacks on the political opposition, independent media and human rights defenders have created a climate of…
South Sudan: Killings, mass displacement and systematic looting as government forces purge civilians from Upper Nile
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Tens of thousands of civilians in South Sudan’s Upper Nile region were forcibly displaced as government forces burnt, shelled…
Donors failing almost a million South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
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Rich countries are failing in their obligation to help Uganda support thousands of refugees fleeing death, rape and other…
Myanmar: Ethnic minorities face range of violations including war crimes in northern conflict
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Civilians from minority ethnic groups suffer appalling violations and abuses, including war crimes, at the hands of Myanmar’s military…
Nepal: Unscrupulous recruiters given free rein to exploit migrants
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The Nepali government is failing to address rampant deception and extortion in the country’s labour recruitment business, putting migrant…
Cambodia: Courts of injustice
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Cambodia’s government is using its courts to silence human rights defenders and political activists, Amnesty International says today in…
Tajikistani lawyers harassed, intimidated and imprisoned
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Tajikistani authorities have dealt a major blow to the legal profession through political manipulation of the criminal justice system…
USA: Health of pregnant women being jeopardized by punitive laws
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A set of US laws which claim to promote maternal and infant health are in fact driving pregnant women…
Turkey: “Professional annihilation” of 100,000 public sector workers in post-coup attempt purge
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The dismissal of more than 100,000 Turkish public sector workers is arbitrary and has had a catastrophic impact on…
Australia / Papua New Guinea: Immigration Dept.’s claims about shooting on Manus Island refuted
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Digital verification of images and videos establishes that bullets were fired directly into the Manus refugee centre on 14…
Danish and German children scarred by invasive surgery to “normalise” their sex
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Children born with sex characteristics that do not fit with female or male norms risk being subjected to a…
Nepal: Two years on, the government continues to fail marginalised earthquake survivors
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Two years today after a large earthquake shook Nepal, destroying more than half a million homes and damaging a…
Death Penalty: World’s biggest executioner China must come clean about ‘grotesque’ level of capital punishment
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China’s horrifying use of the death penalty remains one of the country’s deadly secrets, as the authorities continue to…
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