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Mexico: Rushed approval of public security laws is putting human rights at risk

The Mexican Congress is preparing to approve a package of laws on public security that are contrary to international law...

Mexico: First known child death in Mexican migration custody under new president suggests eerie parallels with US policy

The first known death of a child detained by Mexican migration authorities under the current presidential administration is a sickening...

Iran: Proposed law restricting access to lawyer would be crushing blow for justice

A contemptible amendment to Iran’s code of criminal procedure could effectively strip detainees who are facing punishments such as the...

Turkey: ‘Appalling’ violence used against students holding Pride march

Reacting to the news that a Pride march organized by students at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara...

Brazil: Risk of bloodshed in the Amazon unless government protects Indigenous peoples from illegal land seizures and logging

Illegal land seizures and logging on the rise in Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Amazon Recent reductions in government monitoring aggravate...

Venezuela: State steps up repression of protests in the midst of the crisis

At least four people have been killed, more than 200 injured and 205 arrested during state repression of protests across...

South Africa: Authorities must tackle longstanding impunity to end xenophobia

In response to the “follow-up” meeting between the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu and the Minister of...

Israel/OPT: Rocket assault on family home must not lead to further ‘unlawful attacks’

Responding to reports that at least seven people were injured after a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into...

Vietnamese and Thai authorities must come clean about journalist’s disappearance

Reliable reports that independent journalist and former prisoner of conscience Truong Duy Nhat is being detained in Viet Nam raise...

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Karadžić life sentence sends powerful message to the world

Responding to the decision by the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanisms for Criminal Tribunals to increase Radovan Karadžić’s...

Turkey: Judicial farce must end with acquittal of human rights defenders

Amnesty International delegation to attend trial of organization’s Turkey honorary chair, Taner Kılıç, and the Istanbul 10, including former Amnesty...

Mexico: López Obrador’s government must prioritize human rights

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government took some steps to improve the human rights situation in Mexico during the first...

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