Guatemala’s new government must halt the use of forced evictions to resolve land disputes, Amnesty International said, after tens of thousands of demonstrators took part in a nine-day protest march to the country’s capital, Guatemala City.
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March 29, 2012
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March 28, 2012
It is time for the Côte d'Ivoire authorities to cooperate fully with an International Criminal Court (ICC) probe into human rights abuses following the disputed 2010 presidential election, Amnesty International said a year after the conflict's most violent episode.
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March 28, 2012
Ahead of the meeting of heads of state at the Arab League Summit in Baghdad on 29 March, Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s interim Middle East and North Africa Director, is available for interview from London in English, Arabic, French or Spanish.
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March 28, 2012
Cuban human rights activists are facing a surge in harassment in a bid to silence them during the Pope's visit, Amnesty International said.
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March 27, 2012
European countries must investigate their alleged involvement in CIA renditions, Amnesty International said today, as a hearing into a new report on the EU's complicity got underway.
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March 27, 2012
Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate but those employing capital punishment have decreased by more than a third compared to a decade ago, Amnesty International found in its annual review of death sentences and executions.
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March 27, 2012
A travel ban on a prominent Saudi Arabian human rights defender imposed just before he planned to attend a democracy course in the United States must be lifted immediately, Amnesty International said today.
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March 26, 2012
Media Advisory Unfair Policy Fails Refugees and Canadians: Parliament Hill press conference and “jail cell” protest on Bill C-31
TIME: 10:30 am (press conference) 9 am – 1:30 pm (“jail cell” protest)
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March 23, 2012
Any UN mission to supervise an end to armed violence in Syria must include as part of its work the monitoring and reporting of human rights violations and abuses, including crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said today.
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March 23, 2012
The fires that swept through the Nairobi slums of Kibera and Mathare reportedly destroying up to 700 homes, were a sharp reminder to African housing ministers meeting in the city of the need to ensure slum dwellers have access to proper services.
