The latest resignation of a judge from the UN-backed tribunal investigating crimes dating from the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia is a significant setback in the victims’ search for justice, Amnesty International said.
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March 16, 2012
Mexico’s federal senate must move swiftly to pass a proposed law to protect human rights defenders and journalists amid shocking levels of intimidation and killings, Amnesty International said on Friday.
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March 15, 2012
The decision to charge a retired colonel for five enforced disappearances committed under Brazil’s military dictatorship is the first serious challenge to decades of impunity, said Amnesty International.
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March 15, 2012
The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command this afternoon insisted that a cargo of weapons with explosives on the ship MV Schippersgracht's en route to Port Said would not be off-loaded in any Egyptian port.
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March 15, 2012
A year in jail for three UN Pakistani peacekeepers found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy is a travesty of justice, Amnesty International said today.
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March 15, 2012
A ship with a cargo of weapons with explosives en route from the USA to Egypt must not be allowed to offload because of a substantial risk the weapons will be used by Egyptian security forces to commit human rights violations, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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March 14, 2012
The conviction of a former soldier for his role in a bloody massacre in Guatemala in 1982 marks a further step towards justice for the many victims and their family members, Amnesty International said.
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March 14, 2012
People caught up in the massive wave of arrests in the wake of the Syrian uprising have been thrust into a nightmarish world of systemic torture, a new report by Amnesty International says today.
