Amnesty
Hundreds of adults and children ‘disappeared and tortured in Egypt’
Egypt’s national security Agency (NSA) is abducting, torturing and forcibly disappearing people in an effort to intimidate opponents and wipe out...
Amnesty documents ‘chilling’ abuses by armed groups in Syria
Some Syrian opposition groups have adopted methods of abuse similar to those employed by the government of President Bashar Assad, Amnesty International...
From China to UK, global human rights under attack in 2015, says Amnesty
At least 30 countries illegally forced refugees to return to places where they would be in danger last year, Amnesty said on Wednesday as it warned that...
Scandal of minors who are miners: Tech firms accused over child labour
Tech majors including Apple, Samsung and Sony have been accused of using cobalt mined by child labourers in Congo.
120,000 join online fight to protect sisters sentenced to be gang-raped by villagers
More than 120,000 people have signed a petition to stop two Indian sisters being gang-raped and paraded around a village naked with blackened faces as...
Syria’s Assad announces amnesty for army deserters and draft-dodgers
Military deserters have been offered an amnesty by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Amnesty says world neglects Syrian refugees’ plight
Amnesty International criticised what it said was a dismal global response to the plight of Syrian refugees and urged neighboring countries struggling...
More than 19,000 on death row around the world, says Amnesty report
Egypt and Nigeria accounted for well over 1,000 of the death sentences announced last year, more than a third of the world’s total, Amnesty International...
Report: Egypt, Nigeria led world in death sentences in 2014
Egypt and Nigeria accounted for well over 1,000 of the death sentences announced last year, more than a third of the world’s total, Amnesty International...
Amnesty says Gazan militants committed war crimes
The human rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday that Palestinian militant organizations had committed war crimes during the 2014...
World response to armed groups like IS ‘shameful’: Amnesty
World leaders have proved “shameful and ineffective” in failing to protect civilians from groups like Islamic State (IS), Amnesty International...
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