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End violence and serious human rights violations against Afghan refugees

By Alliance for Human Rights in AfghanistanWorld Refugee Day 2022 To mark World Refugee Day, members of the Alliance for...

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Afghanistan: Taliban must immediately stop unlawful killings and arbitrary arrests in Panjshir

Responding to reports of use of torture, extrajudicial executions and arbitrary arrest of civilians by the Taliban in Panjshir province...

Covid-19: WTO ministerial decision on TRIPS Agreement fails to set rules that could save lives  

Responding to today’s ministerial decision by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the TRIPs Agreement, Tamaryn Nelson, Amnesty International’s Researcher...

Turkey: Amnesty names Osman Kavala and Gezi Park defendants as prisoners of conscience

Seven people who were imprisoned in Turkey on trumped-up charges have been named prisoners of conscience (POCs) by Amnesty International...

Rwanda: Commonwealth leaders must oppose UK’s racist asylum seeker deal

Commonwealth leaders must take a firm and clear stand against the UK’s racist and disgraceful asylum seeker deal with Rwanda,...

UK/US: Home Secretary’s certification of Assange extradition puts him at risk

Responding to the news that the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has certified Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States...

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Brazil: Amnesty International laments the brutal deaths of Bruno and Dom and demands justice from Brazilian government

June 16, 2022 Amnesty International is deeply saddened by the news of the killing of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips....

Brazil: Authorities must guarantee transparency and respect for human rights in search for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

June 15, 2022 In response to reports that the Brazilian authorities are now treating the search for Dom Phillips and...

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After dam disaster in Colombia, Canada’s EDC talks remedy but fails to provide it

EDC provided financing for Hidroituango megaproject linked to human rights and environmental harm Hidroituango is a hydroelectric dam megaproject financed...

Ukraine: hundreds killed in relentless Russian shelling of Kharkiv – new investigation

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv by indiscriminate Russian shelling using widely banned cluster...

It’s time to stop bankrolling and exporting climate destruction

Canada is the largest provider of public finance for fossil fuels in the G20 By Ketty Nivyabandi, Secretary General of...

Ukraine/Russia: “Death sentences” against three foreign members of Ukrainian forces by separatists’ “courts” a blatant violation of international law

Responding to the news that a separatist “court” in Russia-occupied Donetsk ordered the death of two captured two British nationals...

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