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With all eyes focused on the implementation of the recently agreed EU-Turkey deal, the plight of more than 46,000 refugees and migrants stuck in squalid conditions across mainland Greece, is in danger of being forgotten. Trapped in Greece: an avoidable refugee crisis According to a new report from Amnesty International, Trapped in Greece: an avoidable …
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The release of dozens of student protesters in Myanmar is a step forward for human rights that should pave the way for the new government to release all remaining prisoners of conscience and amend or repeal all laws that fuel arbitrary arrests. The Tharawaddy Court in Myanmar yesterday dropped charges against scores of students facing …
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The discovery of the dead body of a Mexican crime reporter, Anabel Flores Salazar, who had been kidnapped on Monday is a tragic reminder of the harrowing reality faced by thousands of journalists across Mexico, one of the world’s most dangerous countries for media workers. The body of Anabel Flores Salazar, 32, was found in the …
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The Malaysian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who has now spent a year in prison on politically motivated charges. Arbitrary detention Amnesty International regards Anwar Ibrahim as a prisoner of conscience, who has been targeted solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression. The ‘sodomy’ case against …
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Amnesty International has appeared before a Senate Committee today to shed further light on Australia’s secretive Operation Sovereign Borders, following last year’s explosive reports Australian officials paid off a crew to smuggle a boat back to Indonesia in May 2015. The Senate Inquiry, being undertaken by the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, will hear …
Amnesty International is disappointed that the Australian High Court has ruled that offshore detention is lawful. This decision will result in around 260 vulnerable people, including over 80 children, being forcibly sent back to Nauru. Amnesty International believes that these people seeking asylum would be at real risk of serious human rights violations if returned …
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Malaysia is spiraling into a dark era of repression as the government has launched an unprecedented crackdown through the Sedition Act over the past two years to silence, harass and lock up hundreds of critics. Sedition Act allows authorities to target opposition An Amnesty briefing, Critical Repression: Freedom of expression under attack in Malaysia (PDF …
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Peshmerga forces from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdish militias in northern Iraq have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of homes in an apparent effort to uproot Arab communities in revenge for their perceived support for the so-called Islamic State (IS). Displacement of civilians Our new report, Banished and dispossessed: Forced displacement …
Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products. Lung damage A new report by Amnesty International and Afrewatch, This is what we die for: Human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo …
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After 14 months on the front lines, political journalist Liz Fields discusses what she believes Trump as President means for human rights in United States and the world. Covering the 2016 US presidential election was a woolly ride to say the least. I joined Bernie Sanders as he picketed with fast food workers, watched Hillary Clinton …
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