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Myanmar: Two years since Rohingya exodus, Canadian response to needs of refugees urged

Spokespeople available for interviews With the threat of returns to Myanmar once again looming over Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Amnesty...

Libya: Fears mount for abducted woman politician a month since she went missing

Fears are mounting for the safety of Siham Sergiwa, a Libyan member of parliament, vocal in criticising the current offensive...

Italy/Malta/Spain: 121 people including babies and children stranded at sea in searing heat must be allowed to dock

More than 30 children, including two babies, and nearly 90 men and women stranded at sea in searing temperatures, must...

Amnesty international votes to divest from fossil fuel companies

Amnesty International will divest from fossil fuel companies in acknowledgement that investment in an industry whose products are the primary...

European Union/Libya: Act Now to Save Lives

Release, Evacuate Detained Refugees and Migrants European Union foreign ministers gathering in Brussels on 15 July 2019, should issue a...

Government of Canada turns back on communities harmed by Canadian mining overseas, loses trust of Canadian civil society

Ottawa, July 11, 2019 –Today all fourteen civil society and labour union representatives of the government’s Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Body on...

Egypt: Detainees trapped in ‘revolving doors’ of prison system as authorities bypass release orders

The Egyptian authorities’ growing trend of re-imprisoning people who have been arbitrarily detained, instead of complying with court orders to...

Yemen: Huthi-run court sentences 30 political opposition figures to death following sham trial

Thirty academics and political figures facing trumped-up charges, including espionage for the Saudi Arabia-led Coalition, were sentenced to death by...

Hong Kong: Carrie Lam’s vague words fall short

Responding to remarks by Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday that the controversial Extradition Bill is “dead” and...

Guatemala: Red alert for threats to justice and human rights

Guatemala is on the verge of wiping out more than a decade of efforts to strengthen its criminal justice system...

Afghanistan: Taliban bombings chillingly disregard human life

The Taliban’s killing of civilians through a continuous spate of bombings demonstrates the armed group’s chilling disregard for human lives,...

Philippines: UN investigation urgently needed into the Duterte administration’s murderous ‘war on drugs’

Extrajudicial executions by police remain rampant Scale of abuses reaches the threshold of crimes against humanity The wave of police...

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