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Mining operations by India’s state-owned Coal India Limited, the world’s largest coal producer, are shutting out indigenous Adivasi communities from decisions that affect their lives. The report, “When Land Is Lost, Do We Eat Coal?”: Coal Mining and Violations of Adivasi Rights in India, traces how Coal India subsidiaries, central government ministries and state government …
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In response to the emergence of photographs that purportedly show torture and other ill-treatment by security forces during an operation in Navosa, Fiji: “These deeply disturbing images should be immediately and independently investigated in a thorough and transparent manner. It is not enough for the police to investigate themselves, as the Police Commissioner has suggested. …
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Bangladeshi authorities must immediately establish the fate and whereabouts of a surviving hostage from the recent Dhaka restaurant attack who has been missing since taken by police for questioning 10 days ago. Fears are growing for the well-being of Hasnat Karim, who was trapped with his wife and two children in Dhaka’s Holey Bakery on …
Egypt’s National Security Agency (NSA) is abducting, torturing and forcibly disappearing people in an effort to intimidate opponents and wipe out peaceful dissent, as highlighted by a damning new report published by Amnesty International today which shows an unprecedented spike in enforced disappearances since early 2015. Egypt: ‘Officially, you do not exist’: Disappeared and tortured in the …
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A new proposal by a group of parliamentarians from opposition party ARENA in El Salvador to increase jail terms for women accused of having an abortion to up to 50 years is scandalous, irresponsible and flies on the face of basic human rights standards. “Parliamentarians in El Salvador are playing a very dangerous game with …
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Great news from the NT! Our supporters really stepped up to ensure that independent MPs did not support the government’s damaging plans to lock up more kids before they have even been to trial. What happened? The Northern Territory government was seeking to rush through changes on their final parliamentary sitting day before the NT …
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Warring parties in South Sudan must take all possible measures to protect civilians, including thousands of internally displaced people currently sheltering at UN bases, as fighting continues to threaten civilian areas in the capital, Juba. On 10 and 11 July, artillery shells landed in civilian neighbourhoods near Vice-President Riek Machar’s base in Jebel neighbourhood, injuring …
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A new report published by Amnesty International today casts a rare light on the torture and other harrowing treatment of prisoners of conscience locked up in Viet Nam’s secretive network of prisons and detention centres. The organisation has urged Australia to press Viet Nam to protect these prisoners’ rights. Prisons within Prisons Prisons within Prisons: Torture …
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A new report published by Amnesty International today casts a rare light on the torture and other harrowing treatment of prisoners of conscience locked up in Viet Nam’s secretive network of prisons and detention centres. The organisation has urged Australia to press Viet Nam to protect these prisoners’ rights. Read the report Prisons within Prisons Prisons …
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“Last night’s shootings are a devastating reminder that gun violence in the U.S. is a human rights crisis that impacts everyone. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families,” said Margaret Huang, Amnesty International USA interim executive director. “Killings both by and of police demand justice. The right to life is universal and everyone …
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