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The UK is failing to take its share of responsibility for the refugee crisis facing Iraq said Amnesty International today, ahead of the government’s quarterly asylum statistics. While the USA has...
Fessahaye Yohannes (known as "Joshua"), a journalist, playwright, poet, father of three, and long-term prisoner of conscience, is reported to be dead as a result of severe ill-treatment and denial of...
Amnesty International UK, Anti-Slavery International, Eaves & UNICEF UK As a powerful new photographic exhibition revealing the reality of trafficking in the UK opens in St Paul’s Cathedral (21...
The Liberian government has done little or nothing to bring to justice thousands of people accused of serious human rights violations during the country's protracted armed conflict, in which hundreds...
Responding to a vote today by the European Parliament to adopt a report by an MEPs’ renditions committee, Amnesty International welcomed the report and called for action from the UK government. The...
"I cleaned the house, cooked, swept the floor, and took care of the Children's rights... every day from five in the morning until midnight... [My employer] threw hot water on me when she got angry...
Responding to a vote today (14 February 2007) by the European Parliament to adopt a report by an MEPs’ renditions committee, Amnesty International welcomed the report and called for action from the UK...
Amnesty International today condemned the death sentence imposed on former Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadhan as a denial of true justice to the victims of Saddam Hussain's rule. Amnesty...
“The Internet is the new front in the battle between those who want to speak out and those who want to stop them” The Internet industry must do more to fight governments’ attempts to repress internet...
End Violence Against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights Campaign Call for more ‘reality on rape’ in television programmes Commenting today on the BBC television ‘rape trial’...