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‘Politics of demonization’ breeding division and fear

RELEASED WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2017 (00.01 GMT) Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2016 to 2017 Risk of domino...

EU: Human rights cost of refugee deal with Turkey too high to be replicated elsewhere

Released 00.01 14 February 2017 The EU-Turkey refugee deal has left thousands of refugees and migrants in squalid and dangerous...

South Sudan: Arms embargo, sanctions fail at UN Security Council

The United Nations Security Council’s failure to approve a 23 December, 2016, resolution that would have imposed an arms embargo...

Iraq: Children caught in the crossfire of the battle for Mosul suffer horrific injuries and trauma

Released 22 December 2016 00:00 GMT The desperate plight of a generation of children is in the balance as the...

33 reasons to be positive about 2016

By Amnesty International Staff It seems like wherever you look, people have written 2016 off as a terrible year. But...

Myanmar: Security forces target Rohingya during vicious Rakhine scorched-earth campaign

The Myanmar security forces are responsible for unlawful killings, multiple rapes and the burning down of houses and entire villages...

Amnesty International global campaign takes aim at British Columbia’s Site C dam

For the first time, Amnesty International’s flagship global human rights campaign is taking aim at a human rights case in...

No refuge for refugees: life in the refugee camps in Greece

Content Warning: This post includes descriptions of violence. By Catherine Bruce, Director, Refugee Law Office Toronto In September 2016, I...

No refuge for refugees: life in the refugee camps in Greece

Content Warning: This post includes descriptions of violence. By Catherine Bruce, Director, Refugee Law Office Toronto In September 2016, I...

Myanmar: Rakhine investigation must be credible

Responding to the news that the President of Myanmar has established a commission to investigate violence in Rakhine state since...

Uniting for Peace in Syria: Global Civil Society Appeal to UN Member States

The UN Security Council has failed Syrians. In almost six years of conflict, close to half a million people have...

Colombia: Peace agreement must open the door to justice

The ratification of the peace agreement marks the beginning of a new and hopeful chapter in Colombia’s history, but the...

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