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Afghanistan: Country must have access to funds to avoid humanitarian disaster

The international community must urgently ease existing financial restrictions on Afghanistan that are blocking the provision of healthcare, food and other...

Colombia: Only a robust and coordinated state response will resolve the situation of grave risk faced by human rights defenders

Colombia has failed to comply with its international obligation to guarantee a safe and enabling space for the defence of...

Open letter: Amnesty International urges federal government, BC and RCMP to protect the rights of Wet’suwet’en land defenders

Amnesty International is writing with grave concern over the arrival on November 17 and 18 of new contingents of Royal...

Write for Rights: World’s biggest human rights campaign marks 20th birthday

Amnesty International’s record-breaking Write for Rights campaign launches today, marking 20 years of the global letter-writing drive. Since 2001, the...

Greece: Emblematic search and rescue trial to begin

Spokespeople available in Lesvos and Athens Symbolic solidarity actions in Athens on 15 November at 12 local time (at Syntagma Square)...

Ethiopia: Tigrayans targeted in fresh wave of ethnically motivated detentions in Addis Ababa

Security forces in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, have targeted Tigrayans, including children and the elderly, with arbitrary arrests and...

Covid-19: New research reveals Pfizer is making misleading claims about fair distribution of vaccines

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is making misleading statements about its commitment to vaccine fairness, as it continues to supply the majority...

Ethiopia: Survivors of TPLF attack in Amhara describe gang rape, looting and physical assaults

Women raped at gunpoint, robbed and assaulted Lack of medical care after TPLF fighters damaged and looted hospital Abuses committed...

Sudan: Immediately Free Detainees; Halt Arrests

Some Officials Freed, but New Detentions and Others Still Held (Nairobi, November 9, 2021) – Sudanese security authorities should immediately...

Venezuela: ICC Prosecutor’s primary consideration in opening an investigation must be timely and effective justice for victims

In response to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announcing that it is opening an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity committed...

China: Release jailed Wuhan activist ‘close to death’ after hunger strike

A Chinese citizen journalist jailed for reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan is at risk...

Hundreds of people marching in the streets with Nicaraguan flags.

Nicaragua: International organizations set out five reasons why elections do not guarantee the exercise of human rights

In the run up to the general elections in Nicaragua, scheduled for 7 November, Amnesty International, the Center for Justice...

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