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'Arab Spring' five-year anniversary: region remains mired in repression - new factsheet

New factsheet on human rights situation half a decade since Tunisian fruit-seller’s death led to mass protests

Turkey: EU risks being complicit in detention, beatings and deportation of Syrian refugees - New report

“When they put a chain over your hands and legs, you feel like a slave, like you are not a human being,” Syrian refugee

Northern Ireland: Time for change as abortion law declared breach of human rights

Amnesty International has called for an urgent change in abortion law in Northern Ireland after a judgment by Belfast’s High Court today declared existing law in breach of the European Conven

Kuwait : dozens caught up in clampdown on government critics - new report

‘Insulting’ the Amir of Kuwait is punishable with a five-year jail sentence

Nigeria: killings of Shi'ites in Zaria must be urgently investigated

‘There is no doubt that there has been a substantial loss of life at the hands of the military’ - M.K. Ibrahim

Tunisia: jailing of six men for same-sex relations 'shocking'

‘This case highlights the entrenched levels of state homophobia in the country’ - Said Boumedouha

Women from Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland had almost 25,000 abortions in England & Wales over last 5 years

New data shows that almost 25,000 women from across Ireland, north and south, travelled to have abortions in England and Wales – an average of close to 100 terminations every week over the pa

UK must halt arms sales to Saudi as new evidence shows schools targeted in Yemen airstrikes

1,000 schools out of operation - 254 completely destroyed Report published ahead of peace talks scheduled for next week

Egypt: Photojournalist facing life imprisonment on trumped up charges - trial to begin this week

Shawkan held for over 800 days in inhumane conditions and tortured