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Bangladesh: Provide safety to Rohingya refugees

Responding to the news that 18,000 members of the predominantly Muslim Rohingya community have fled fighting in Myanmar to seek...

Cameroon: Release of Anglophone leaders a relief but others still languish in prison

In response to today’s presidential decision to drop all charges against civil society leaders and several others arrested in connection...

Sudan: Dr Mudawi released after eight months of wrongful imprisonment

Reacting to news that Sudanese human rights defender Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam has been released from prison and all charges...

Syria: Tens of thousands of disappeared must not be forgotten

The Syrian government and armed groups involved in the country’s conflict must disclose the fate and whereabouts of tens...

Canada Must Act on UN Recommendations

Amnesty International urges the Canadian government to act on all the recommendations made for Canada by the UN Committee for...

South Africa: Hideous coffin assault case must spur government action on hate crime

In response to the guilty verdict on the coffin assault case by the Middleburg High Court earlier today, Amnesty...

Governments completely out of touch with citizens on refugee issues, new survey reveals

Nearly three-quarters of young people globally would welcome refugees into their countries A new survey released by the World Economic...

Yemen: UN must respond as five children killed in night of horror

An air strike which hit Faj Attan, a residential area of Yemen’s capital Sana’a in the early hours of this...

Florida conducts its first execution in a year and a half

AI USA Release For the first time since the Supreme Court ruled against the state’s capital sentencing statute, Florida has...

Philippines: Senate hearing highlights deadly consequences for children in ‘war on drugs’

A hearing today in the Philippines Senate has exposed the abysmal failings of the police to protect children from...

Syria: ‘Deadly labyrinth’ traps civilians trying to flee Raqqa battle against Islamic State

Thousands of civilians trapped in Raqqa, northern Syria, are coming under fire from all sides as the battle for control...

Palestine: Dangerous escalation in attacks on freedom of expression

The Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and their rivals, the de-facto Hamas administration in Gaza, have both tightened the...

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