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Feb 21 2013 9:28AM
Sudanese Women Held Without Trial

UA 46/13 19 February 2013 URGENT ACTION AFR 54/005/2013 SUDANESE WOMEN HELD WITHOUT TRIAL SUDAN 32 Sudanese women detained in Al-Obeid prison (f) More than 30 Sudanese women have been detained arbitrarily without access to a lawyer...

Feb 14 2013 11:19AM
Women human rights defenders threatened, Columbia

UA 37/13 13 February 2013 URGENT ACTION AMR 23/006/2013 WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS THREATENED COLOMBIA Gloria Amparo Suárez (f) and her sons (m), Yolanda Becerra (f) Gloria Amparo Suárez and Yolanda Becerra, from the women’s human...

Feb 6 2013 12:44PM
Solidarity demo for WOZA

Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) was formed in 2003 to give women an united voice against the social and human rights conditions in Zimbabwe. Since then, WOZA members have been repeatedly arrested, harassed and beaten by police after...

Jan 28 2013 5:47PM
Stop the execution of another domestic worker in Saudi Arabia

Just weeks ago, Rizana Nafeek, a young and vulnerable domestic worker from Sri Lanka was beheaded in Saudi Arabia.Now another woman in Saudi Arabia is on death row awaiting execution by beheading . Siti Zainab Binti Duhri Rupa is a...

Nov 4 2012 6:34PM
Four Women Stoned to Death in Iran

Stoning to death is the most barbaric, most horrific kind of execution that had ever existed in the history of mankind. Yet, in the Islamic Republic of Iran people, expecially women have been stoned to death on a number of occasions...

Oct 8 2012 3:56PM
Forced evictions: "We are asking for right and justice to be done"

We’ve just returned from Warsaw, from a meeting of the 56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), focusing on human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination across Europe, the former Soviet Union and North...

Sep 23 2012 6:13PM
International Day of Peace: Syria burning among civil war

Today is the International Day of Peace While parts of the Middle East region are burning among civil war and acts of terror, peace seems to be a far-reached concept which requires tremendous effort to settle with. In the past few...

Jun 16 2012 4:44PM
How Can the World Witness Such Brutality and Do Nothing?

How can we witness such brutality and do nothing? “From where he was hiding, a 5 year traumatised, yet brave boy told reporters how his younger brother and mother were shot by the soldiers and died. He said he even saw the army...

Apr 10 2012 10:52PM
Iranian revolutionary court gives 4 years to Mansoureh Behkish

Below is Mansoureh Behkish ; a woman in her 60s. She is one of the oldest women's rights campaigners who had lost 6 members of her family in the 1980s massacres in the Iranian prisons. Eversince she had been in and out of prison on...

Mar 23 2012 3:00PM
Summary of Amnesty International's submission to the UN of its concerns and recommendations relating to the Dominican Republic

A few days before the Un Human Rights Committee began its review in march of the Dominican Republic's human rights record, Amnesty submitted a detailed report of its concerns. These included widespread violence by police, use of...

Mar 20 2012 1:42PM
Human Rights Watch Film Festival

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival comes to London tomorrow until March 30th, 2012. The eclectic and inspiring selection of films will be shown across four venues in the City, including; Curzon Mayfair, Curzon Soho, ICA and the Ritzy...

Mar 17 2012 8:03PM
March 21 is Iranian New Year and Women in Prison

We are nearing the Iranian New Year. As millions of Iranians inside and outside the country celebrate NowRooz, those who are in prison and their families especially children of the prisoners feel no urge for celebrations. The number of...

Feb 24 2012 9:37AM
IN SOLIDARITY, IN DEFIANCE

IN SOLIDARITY, IN DEFIANCE mena uprisings: ONLY HALF A RE VOLUTION? Tuesday 20 March, 7pm for 7.30pm start Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA To discuss the future of women’s rights and feminist activism...

Feb 13 2012 8:58PM
Women of the World Festival (WOW)

WOW - Women of the World Festival 2012 is a celebration of the formidable strength and inventiveness of women, running 7-11 March. This annual festival presents and recognises women from all walks of life, acting as a conversation...

Feb 11 2012 7:01PM
Amnesty and the anniversary of the Arab revolutions in Trafalgar Square

Rouhi Shafii In the cold weather of London hundreds; men women and children, Arab, English, Iranian and many other nationalilities, political activists and anti-war campaigners gathered in a show of solidarity with the Arab people who...

Feb 10 2012 5:06PM
Iran Mourning Mothers demand an end to detention and persecution

Stop persecutions, detentions, executions! On 2 February 2012 and in an orchestrated operation security forces raided the homes of about 30 Bahaie citizens in the city of Shiraz in south of the country and took away 11 people. The...

Feb 7 2012 8:45PM
Join us in Trafalgar Square to celebrate revolutions in the Arab world

We will have speakers from Egypt, Syria, Libya, Bahrain, Palestine and more including leaders from the Trade Union movement. The event is this Saturday 11 February (12-2), Trafalgar Square, London Confirmed Speakers Kate Allen AIUK...

Jan 16 2012 12:00AM
An untold story which must be told!

Last night while browsing the Persian websites I came across this untold story of a young girls whose was only 17 and her life ended when she was detained by security forces in Shiraz, her hometown in southern Iran. Taraneh Bayat, 17...

Nov 21 2011 1:35PM
women's revolution?

FCBBCA: Is the Arab Spring a EXTERNAL EVENT HELD AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH BBC ARABIC The uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa were a time when the 'revolutionary Arab woman' grabbed the...

Nov 13 2011 7:32AM
WAN Event/ Symposium of short documentaries from Iran

Report of Symposium of the documentaries produced by Iranian Women Day 0ne, 4 November 2011 Women Action Network of Amnesty International in collaboration with ICAVI celebrated the Iranian producers’ documentaries at Amnesty Human...

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