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Amnesty International Ireland welcomes Cabinet decision to hold referendum on Eighth Amendment

DUBLIN, 29 January 2018 – Amnesty International has welcomed the government’s decision at today’s Cabinet meeting to schedule a referendum...

Indonesia: Police arrests and attempts to ‘re-educate’ transgender people must end

Reacting to the Indonesian police’s arrest of 12 transgender people in North Aceh on 27 January, while forcefully cutting their...

Turkey: More than a million people demand freedom for Amnesty chair as trial resumes

More than one million people from 194 countries have demanded the release of Amnesty International’s Turkey Chair, Taner Kılıç and...

Cambodia: Quash convictions against environmental activists

Reacting to today’s verdict sentencing two environmental activists affiliated with the NGO Mother Nature to prison for one year plus...

Yemen: ‘Heart-breaking’ mass drowning a symptom of devastating conflict and humanitarian crisis

Responding to reports that at least 30 Somali and Ethiopian refugees and migrants drowned after leaving the coast of south-western...

Papua New Guinea: Sick asylum-seeker restrained and force-fed

Responding to news that an asylum-seeker being treated at a hospital in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG), for a...

Peru: Historic opportunity for the state to end the impunity created by granting grace to Alberto Fujimori in the case of Pativilca

The hearing due to be held tomorrow morning, 26 January, is a historic opportunity for Peru to put an end...

Libya: Special Forces commander apparently filmed committing extrajudicial executions must be handed over to the ICC

Responding to reports that yesterday Mahmoud al-Werfalli, former Field Commander of the Special Forces Brigade (Al-Saiqa) affiliated to the Libyan...

Saudi Arabia: First human rights defenders sentenced under leadership of ‘reformer’ Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman

Responding to the sentencing today of two prominent human rights activists Mohammad al-Otaibi and Abdullah al-Attawi by the Specialized Criminal...

South Sudan: A Year On, 2 Men’s Whereabouts Unknown

Reveal Fate, Whereabouts of Dong Samuel Luak, Aggrey Idri (Nairobi, January 24, 2018) – South Sudanese authorities have failed to...

Afghanistan: Amnesty stands in solidarity with Save the Children following Jalalabad attack

In response to today’s attack on Save the Children’s offices in Jalalabad, which has left several people dead and a...

As Site C Court Challenge Unfolds, Horgan Government Must Uphold Human Rights Commitments

In a strongly worded open letter to British Columbia Premier John Horgan, Amnesty International is urging the province not to...

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