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Omar Khadr: Questions and Answers

How long was Omar Khadr in US custody? , Omar Khadr was held in US custody for over ten years. He was detained at the age of 15 during a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002. Although seriously injured, his interrogation started in the detention facility in Bagram. He was later transferred to...
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The Arms Trade Treaty: one last hurdle remains

Campaigner Hilary Homes on today’s negotiations Once upon a time, treaty negotiations literally took place behind closed doors. Unless you had some good friends among the delegates, you had to wait until the very end to know the results.  Much of this month’s Arms Trade Treaty negotiations...
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Final countdown to UN Arms Trade Treaty starts but Canada missing in action

By Hilary Homes (Amnesty International Canada), Robert Fox (Oxfam Canada) and Ken Epps (Project Ploughshares) Long a significant advocate of global arms control, Canada will be conspicuously absent next year from arguably the most important conventional weapons conference of this generation. At a...
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Human rights groups cannot do their jobs in a surveillance state

By Tanya O’Carroll, Technology and Human Rights Officer for Amnesty International. Follow Tanya on Twitter @TanyaOCarroll Powerful surveillance systems are strangling freedom of expression and interfering with the legitimate work of activists and non-governmental organizations. Since former...
July 9, 2015
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