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Nigeria: Authorities must act immediately to rescue abducted children and ensure schools are made saferPress release 15 Dec 2020 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Activist returned to Pakistan and released
Geelaman Pashteen, human rights activist and supporter of Pakistan’s Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) was released.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2020 -
Hungary: Homophobic adoption bill part of ongoing attack on LGBTI+ community'Hungary’s MPs must reject these draconian provisions' - David Vig
Press release 14 Dec 2020 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Crimean Tatar rights defender sentenced
Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender, was sentenced by a Russian military court on 16 September.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2020 -
Iran: execution of journalist Rouhollah Zam is shockingResponse to news that the prominent dissident journalist Rouhollah Zam has been executed in Iran earlier today.
Press release 12 Dec 2020 -
Argentina: historic vote to legalise abortion strongly welcomedAmnesty International has strongly welcomed the preliminary approval of the bill on the voluntary termination of pregnancy passed today by Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies.
Press release 11 Dec 2020 -
UK should commit to global ban on torture equipment as part of BrexitAmnesty International is calling on the UK government to make a formal statement of support for a global ban on the trade in equipment used for capital punishment or torture as the UK leaves the current EU system which regulates the “torture trade”.
Press release 10 Dec 2020 -
Armenia/Azerbaijan: Decapitation and war crimes in gruesome videos must be urgently investigated‘The depravity and lack of humanity captured in these videos shows the deliberate intention to cause ultimate harm and humiliation to victims’ - Denis Krivosheev
Press release 10 Dec 2020 -
Airbnb share listing: company is 'deeply compromised' by Israeli settlement propertiesPress release 09 Dec 2020 -
Campaigners warn that 9 out of 10 people in poor countries are set to miss out on COVID-19 vaccine next yearRich countries have hoarded enough doses to vaccinate their entire populations nearly 3 times over
Press release 09 Dec 2020 -
Turkey: Students facing three-years in jail for celebrating Pride must be acquittedCelebrities and influencers Riyadh Khalaf, Jessica Kellgren Fozard, Russell T Davies, Char Ellesse and Matty Healy among those speaking out
Press release 09 Dec 2020 -
Nigeria: Older people an invisible casualty in conflict with Boko Haram - new reportReport details how both Boko Haram and the Nigerian military have committed atrocities against older women and men during conflict in Northeast Nigeria
Press release 08 Dec 2020 -
Hong Kong: Students arrested after campus protest as educational institutions targetedPress release 07 Dec 2020
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Somalia: US must not abandon civilian victims of its air strikes after troop withdrawalAmnesty warns troop withdrawal does not necessarily mean end to military action
Press release 07 Dec 2020 -
Amnesty warns of 'giant leap backwards' as Human Rights Act threatenedPress release 07 Dec 2020
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Egypt: International community must step in to halt the crackdown on human rights, says Amnesty
EGYPT: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST STEP IN TO HALT THE CRACKDOWN ON HUMAN RIGHTS, SAYS AMNESTY
Press release 06 Dec 2020 -
Amnesty International UK and Liberty joint statement on puberty blockersJoint statement following High Court ruling that children under 16 are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to undergo treatment with puberty-blocking drug
Press release 03 Dec 2020 -
Hong Kong: Pro-democracy activist warns of 'bloody 2021' ahead of Amnesty Northern Ireland event live from Hong KongOriginal planned speaker Joshua Wong has now been jailed by pro-Beijing authorities
Press release 03 Dec 2020 -
Iran: six men face amputation punishments for 'robbery'The Iranian authorities must halt imminent plans to amputate the fingers of six men convicted of robbery following unfair trials and torture-tainted “confessions”.
Press release 03 Dec 2020 -
Bangladesh: Halt relocation of Rohingya refugees to remote island immediately'No relocation plan, either to Bhashan Char or to another location, can be undertaken without the full and informed consent of the individuals involved' -Saad Hammadi
Press release 03 Dec 2020
