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Sudan: Shooting of protestors must be immediately investigated

In response to security officers opening fire on protestors in Sudan leaving at least nine people dead, five of whom...

PUBLIC APOLOGY

Amnesty International has taken the decision to pull the magazine Glamoria and the organization apologizes unreservedly for its publication. The...

Egypt: NGO ‘foreign funding’ case acquittals must lead to end of crackdown on human rights community

Responding to the news that the South Cairo Criminal Court this morning acquitted all 43 defendants in the retrial of...

UAE: Fears grow for health of unjustly imprisoned academic

The authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) must immediately and unconditionally release Dr Nasser bin Ghaith, a prisoner of...

Uganda: Drop absurd charges against academic Stella Nyanzi

The Ugandan authorities must immediately drop charges against radical academic Stella Nyanzi and put a stop to the charade that...

Viet Nam: Police raid major meeting of local NGOs in alarming step-up of repression

Police in Viet Nam’s capital, Hanoi, shut down a major annual meeting of grassroots groups and non-government organizations (NGOs) this...

Crowdsourced Twitter study reveals shocking scale of online abuse against women

Amnesty International and Element AI release largest ever study into online abuse against women One in ten tweets mentioning black...

Egypt: Court orders release of woman human rights defender imprisoned for speaking out against sexual harassment

Egyptian authorities must immediately comply with a court decision to release Amal Fathy, a woman human rights defender who was...

UN: World leaders must seize historic opportunity to protect the rights of migrants

States who have adopted the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) must honour their word and take immediate action to protect...

Amnesty International supports call for federal government to address landmark UN decision on health care access for migrants

Amnesty International is joining more than 1,500 members of the health care community in calling on the federal government to...

Global action plan calls for States at the UN General Assembly to ensure protection of human rights defenders worldwide

A plan of action for how to protect and promote the work of human rights defenders will be presented today...

El Salvador: State recognizes the injustice inflicted on victim of sexual violence

In response to today’s ruling by a court in El Salvador in the case of Imelda Cortez, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty...

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