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03 February 2009
The human rights records of 16 countries are up for review at the
fourth session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group in Geneva.
02 February 2009
Hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya people are missing at sea and many more
are at risk of drowning after Thai authorities forcibly expelled large
groups of Rohingyas see
02 February 2009
Four Egyptian newspaper editors convicted of publishing offences under
a controversial press law have had their one-year prison sentences
overturned by a Cairo Appea
30 January 2009
A law to protect women in Mexico has had no impact in the two years
since its inception, leaving the safety of many Mexican women at risk.
29 January 2009
A prominent human rights lawyer in Indonesia has been cleared of
charges relating to a text message he is alleged to have sent to his
friends and family contacts.
28 January 2009
Those who watched Barack Obama take office on 20 January were part of a
far-reaching celebration of the once seemingly impossible becoming
reality.
28 January 2009
A bill now before the Nigerian National Assembly aims to outlaw
marriages between individuals of the same sex – in a country where
homosexuality is already cri
28 January 2009
In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama rejected as "false" the choice between safety and respect for human rights.
28 January 2009
Emergency medical rescue workers, including doctors, paramedics and ambulance drivers, have repeatedly come under fire from Israeli forces in the Gaza conflict while c
28 January 2009
More than 300,000 civilians are now trapped in the north-eastern part
of Sri Lanka as the fighting between Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the army intensifies.
27 January 2009
An anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation, flechettes should never be used in built-up civilian areas.
27 January 2009
Cambodian security forces and demolition workers carried out the
evictions of 152 families from Dey Kraham community in the early hours
of Saturday.
27 January 2009
The vice-president of the Workers' Party in the Brazilian state of
Pernambuco and human rights activist was assassinated on Saturday.
26 January 2009
A coalition of human rights organizations is calling on EU foreign ministers to help by offering humanitarian protection to
detainees at risk of torture or other seri
26 January 2009
Disclosure of weapons and munitions used by the Israeli armed forces, would mean that medical staff were better equipped to treat victims of the three week military ca
26 January 2009
As people try to put their lives back together, the threat of renewed
conflict is all too real. The ceasefire has now officially run out, and
there is anxiety about
23 January 2009
Houses have been looted, vandalized and desecrated. Israeli soldiers have left behind not only mounds of litter and excrement but ammunition and other military equipme
22 January 2009
Amnesty International has welcomed the new US administration’s moves to
suspend military commission proceedings at Guantánamo as a “positive
sign&
22 January 2009
Retired army colonel Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega is currently on trial in
the civilian courts for his alleged part in the enforced disappearance
of 11 people in 1985.
22 January 2009
Amnesty International's fact-finding team has visited refugee camps and spoken to survivors of the Israeli
bombardments during the three week long conflict which bega
