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In a new report released today (11 March) Amnesty International calls on the Italian authorities to halt a controversial housing plan that has resulted in the forced eviction of hundreds of Roma and paves the way for thousands more evictions over the coming months. The report, The Wrong Answer - Italys Nomad Plan violates the housing rights of Roma in Rome, warns that the programme, which began in July 2009, violates the human rights of thousands of Roma. Posted: 11 Mar 2010

Amnesty International has accused the Azerbaijani government of stifling dissent after a court turned down an appeal by two bloggers against their conviction on fabricated charges of hooliganism. Posted: 10 Mar 2010

Amnesty International urges Burma (Myanmar) to overturn a new law that bars all political prisoners, including detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, from belonging to a political party before upcoming national election. Posted: 10 Mar 2010

Amnesty International has warned that Slovakian plans to establish boarding schools for Roma children and gradually detach[ing] them from the way of living they currently experience in the settlements is discriminatory and a blatant attack on the Roma way of living. Posted: 9 Mar 2010

The Lib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael has spoken out over the plight of a prisoner on death row in Japan, dubbing the case of Hakamada Iwao a tragedy and a scar on the conscience of Japan. Posted: 9 Mar 2010

Hundreds of thousands of pregnant women in many developing countries find themselves at as great a risk of death in childbirth in 2010 as women in the UK did 100 years ago. Posted: 8 Mar 2010

'Breaking the silence: Sexual violence in Cambodia', our report issued to mark International Womens Day, exposes how corruption and discrimination within the police and courts in Cambodia are preventing survivors of rape from receiving justice and assistance, while most perpetrators are going unpunished. Posted: 8 Mar 2010

Hundreds of Amnesty activists descended on Liverpool Street Station earlier today to stage a mass die-in of pregnant women to represent the enormous numbers of women who die in childbirth across the globe. Global figures show that approximately one woman dies every minute because of preventable causes related to pregnancy. Posted: 6 Mar 2010

Amnesty International is increasingly concerned for the fate of a Syrian novelist detained nearly three weeks ago. Posted: 5 Mar 2010

Amnesty International has condemned the trial of young blogger in Egypt, calling on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Ahmad Mostafa, 20, a blogger and prisoner of conscience facing up to nine and a half years in prison after he published a post alleging nepotism within the armed forces. Posted: 5 Mar 2010

Amnesty International has strongly opposed any withdrawal or reduction of the numbers of UN peacekeepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after the government requested that the current force (MONUC) withdraws from the country by June 2011. Posted: 5 Mar 2010

The EUs foreign ministers and its High Representative for foreign affairs Baroness Ashton must insist on their right to visit Gaza, say 17 European human rights and development organisations (1) on the eve of the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Crdoba, Spain on 5-6 March. Posted: 4 Mar 2010

The Niger Delta is one of the world's 10 most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems and is home to about 31 million people. Its huge oil deposits have been extracted for years by the Nigerian govenment and multinational oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell. However, the majority of the Niger Delta population lives in extreme poverty without clean water or adequate health care. Posted: 4 Mar 2010

Amnesty International today accused the Mexican authorities of misusing the justice system to detain three community leaders following their protests against high electricity prices in the state of Campeche, in the east of Mexico. Posted: 4 Mar 2010

Taxpayers money could be used to fund child labour or slavery under new government proposals, campaign groups warned today. Posted: 3 Mar 2010

Amnesty International today denounced the practice of flogging in Sudan, which particularly affects women. A new Campaign Briefing from Amnesty asks people to write to Sudans President Bashir, urging him to abolish this brutal practice. Posted: 1 Mar 2010

Amnesty International has issued an urgent action appeal calling for the release of a Russian activist after she was forcibly detained in a psychiatric hospital in connection with her activities promoting happiness in the country. Yulia Privedennaia was sent to the Moscow Serbskii Institute for a period of at least 30 days on the orders of a Moscow court. Posted: 28 Feb 2010

Amnesty International has today welcomed the publication of a contentious paragraph critical of the UKs intelligence services in relation to the Binyam Mohamed case. Posted: 26 Feb 2010

Staff at a local radio station in El Salvador, have been sent a series of death threats by text, after their station broadcast details of the brutal murders of three individuals with anti-mining activism links in the area. Posted: 26 Feb 2010

Amnesty International is calling on the government of Bangladesh to carry out a prompt, independent and impartial investigation into the death of two Jumma indigenous residents of the Chittagong Hill Tracts after the army opened fire on them on 20 February 2010. Posted: 26 Feb 2010