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Myanmar: UN Fact-Finding Mission releases its full account of massive violations by military in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States

GENEVA (18 September 2018) – The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar on Tuesday released the full 440-page account of...

Yemen: 24 Baha’i people, including a child, facing possible death penalty

Responding to news that 24 Yemenis from the Baha’i faith – including eight women and a child – are facing...

Amnesty International USA Calls New Refugee Cap Abandonment of Refugees, Calling on Congress to Oppose

Reacting to news that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to set the refugee admissions number to 30,000 for Fiscal year...

Guatemala: Government must comply with Constitutional Court order

Following the ruling of the Guatemalan Constitutional Court ordering President Jimmy Morales and high-ranking immigration officials to allow the International...

Ethiopia: Investigate police conduct after deaths of five people protesting ethnic clashes

The Ethiopian authorities must thoroughly and effectively investigate the violent dispersal of demonstrators by police in Addis Ababa today in...

Honduras: Amnesty International to observe trial over killing of human rights defender Berta Cáceres

Amnesty International will observe the trial of eight people accused of the 2016 murder of Honduran human rights defender Berta...

Venezuela: Authorities must stop criminalizing and killing young people living in poverty

The Venezuelan state is using lethal force with intent to kill against the most vulnerable and socially excluded people in...

Syria: Unlawful attacks using cluster munitions and unguided barrel bombs intensify as Idlib offensive looms

The Syrian government, backed by Russia, has intensified unlawful attacks on civilians in Idlib using internationally banned cluster munitions and...

Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi in shameful defence of Reuters journalists’ conviction

Responding to comments by Myanmar’s State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi, at the World Economic Forum in Hanoi today defending...

Remembering Kofi Annan

Message of support from Kumi Naidoo, Amnesty International Secretary General Ghana has lost one of its finest sons, Africa has...

Contempt for Human Rights: Amnesty International calls on Ontario government to withdraw use of Charter of Rights “notwithstanding clause”

Amnesty International today condemned the Ontario government’s tabling of legislation, Bill 31, The Efficient Local Government Act, which invokes the...

Hungary: MEPs reject policies that erode fundamental freedoms and rights 

Reacting to the decision of the European Parliament to trigger Article 7 proceedings for Hungary, Berber Biala-Hettinga, Amnesty International’s expert...

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