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USA: Recognition of unified Jerusalem ‘reckless’ and undermines Palestinians’ human rights

Condemning today’s announcement by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, that the US is recognizing unified Jerusalem as...

Pakistan: Peace activist missing

Responding to the news that Lahore-based Pakistani peace activist Raza Khan has gone missing, Amnesty International’s Deputy South Asia Director,...

Philippines: Police reinstatement in “drug war” threatens catastrophic return to mass killing

Responding to the news that President Duterte has ordered the police to resume their role in supporting his administration’s so-called...

UN: China fails to scupper resolution on Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingya

Responding to the failed attempt by China, Philippines and Burundi to vote down a UN Human Rights Council resolution on...

Nigeria: Government must act in response to fresh allegations of police abuses

Responding to the recent video circulating on social media, apparently showing the aftermath of an alleged killing of a young...

Legislation on the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Coalition urges Canada to stand by commitment to implement UN Declaration

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a consensus international human rights instrument elaborating standards for...

States worldwide failing to prevent killings and disappearances of human rights defenders

States around the world are failing in their duty to effectively protect people who defend human rights, leading to an...

Mozambique: Journalist held at gunpoint and threatened with death for doing his job

In response to the death threats made against Aunício da Silva, an investigative journalist and editor of Ikweli, a weekly...

USA: Pentagon cancels ban on deadliest cluster munitions

Responding to news that the US Pentagon will indefinitely postpone a ban on older models of cluster munitions, Patrick Wilcken,...

DRC: Heavy-handed police crackdown on protests must stop

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo must investigate the heavy-handed police crackdown on yesterday’s protests in which at least...

Syria: Banned Soviet-made cluster munitions fuel humanitarian catastrophe in Eastern Ghouta

Verified photographs show Soviet-made cluster munitions used over densely populated areas by Syrian government forces Doctors describe dire humanitarian situation...

Trudeau Must Raise Human Rights and Prisoner Cases during Visit to China

The Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China today released an Open Letter calling Prime Minister Trudeau to place human...

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