Libya: Immediately Release Woman Who Alleged Rape
(New York) – The Libyan government should immediately release Eman al-‘Obeidy, the Libyan woman who accused government forces of raping her last week in Tripoli, and allow her family and international media to confirm independently that she is free a…Continue Reading
USF Hosts 9th Annual Human Rights Film Festival
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Coalition Letter of support for the Student Non-Discrimination Act
Dear Senator/Representative:
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Egypt: Ensure Women Equal Role in Elections, Reform
(Cairo) – Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces should ensure that women are equal participants in reshaping the country, Human Rights Watch said today. As Egypt heads into parliamentary and presidential elections after the constitutional referen…Continue Reading
Kyrgyzstan: Court Case Shows Lack of Accountability
(New York) – Kyrgyz authorities’ refusal to investigate torture allegations in a case to be reviewed by the Supreme Court on March 29, 2011, constitutes a serious violation of both Kyrgyz and international law, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Cluster Munitions and the Convention on Conventional Weapons
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Nigeria: Put Human Rights at Heart of Elections
Candidates in Nigeria’s April 2011 elections should put the country’s pervasive human rights problems at the heart of their political campaigns, platforms, and upcoming debates, Human Rights Watch said today i…Continue Reading
Nigeria: Put Human Rights at Heart of Elections
Candidates in Nigeria’s April 2011 elections should put the country’s pervasive human rights problems at the heart of their political campaigns, platforms, and upcoming debates, Human Rights Watch said today i…Continue Reading
UN group calls on China to release human rights lawyer missing for almost a year
BEIJING, China – A U.N. committee has called on China to release a prominent human rights lawyer who has been missing for nearly a year, saying his detention violates international law.Continue Reading
En las calles de Bahréin tu firma importa
Alaphia Zoyab, encargada de comunidades online
Al equipo de comunidades online de Amnistía Internacional le aguardaba una agradable sorpresa el viernes por la mañana.
En el trabajo mantenemos abierta todo el día la página de Amnistía en los ordena…Continue Reading
Bonnie Docherty Delivers Statement on CCW Cluster Munitions Protocol
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Discussions on cluster munitions have been ongoing in the forum of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) for more than a decade. Since 2007 a Group of Government Experts (GGE) has been meeting regularly to negotiat…Continue Reading
El movimiento global para dar muerte a la pena de muerte
Por Salil Shetty, secretario general de Amnistía Internacional
El pasado mes de marzo, cuando la madre de Andrei Zhuk llevó a la prisión de Minsk uno de sus habituales paquetes de comida, tuvo que darse la vuelta. Su hijo “había sido trasladado…Continue Reading
The global movement to kill the death penalty
By Salil Shetty, Secretary-General of Amnesty International
Last March, when Andrei Zhuk’s mother brought one of her usual food parcels to the prison in Minsk, she was turned away. Her son ‘had been moved’, officials told her. She should not c…Continue Reading
U.N. rights body calls on China to release rights lawyer
China’s best known rights lawyer, missing for nearly a year, is being detained in violation of international law, a United Nations human rights body said in a statement made public on Monday, and it called for his immediate release.Continue Reading
US makes its mark in UN rights council
More than a year after US President Barack Obama ended a US boycott of the UN Human Rights Council, diplomats and observers feel Washington is making its mark.Continue Reading