Amnesty’s Top 10 Election Asks
Canada will have its next federal election by October 21st, 2019. Hateful rhetoric and divisive politics are on the rise, but many human rights issues will be left off the […]
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Hungary: Syrian man unjustly jailed finally allowed home to Cyprus
Authorities in Cyprus have finally allowed Ahmed H, a Syrian man unjustly convicted in Hungary in a blatant misuse of terrorism-related charges, to return to his family today. Responding to […]
Bangladesh: Parents fear for ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya children
Amnesty International urges Canada to lead on providing education for Rohingya youth, following new report Two years after a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign forced around 700,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar […]
30 human rights wins worth celebrating
January As a tribute to Julián Carrillo, an environmental rights defender killed in October 2018, we launched Caught between bullets and neglect, a digest on Mexico’s failure to protect environmental human rights […]
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European Union/Libya: Act Now to Save Lives
Release, Evacuate Detained Refugees and Migrants European Union foreign ministers gathering in Brussels on 15 July 2019, should issue a clear call to Libyan authorities to close their migrant detention […]
Libya: Abhorrent attack on migrant detention centre must be investigated as a war crime
The International Criminal Court must order an urgent investigation into an abhorrent attack on the Tajoura immigration detention centre in eastern Tripoli, Libya, in which at least 40 refugees and […]
USA: Authorities are misusing justice system to harass migrant human rights defenders
Since 2018, the US government has conducted an unlawful and discriminatory campaign of intimidation, threats, harassment, and criminal investigations against people who defend the human rights of migrants, refugees and […]
El Salvador: President Bukele pledges to respect human rights
El Salvador’s new government must promote and implement transformative human rights changes that fulfill the nation’s international commitments, said Amnesty International today in a meeting with President Nayib Bukele, who […]
Lebanon: Wave of hostility exposes hollowness of claims that Syrian refugee returns are voluntary
An attack which forced hundreds of Syrian refugees to leave Deir al-Ahmar, an informal camp in the Bekaa valley, last week is a clear example of the escalating hostility which […]
