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December 28, 2020

UNHCR welcomes new asylum law in Chad

The law ensures refugees and asylum-seekers fundamental protections, including freedom of movement, the right to work and access to healthcare, education and justice.
October 21, 2020

Domestic workers in Qatar suffer extreme overwork and abuse

The system continues to allow employers to treat domestic workers not as human beings but as possessions, says Amnesty.
November 9, 2019

Berlin Wall 30th anniversary commemorated as Germany tackles rising tensions

Thirty years ago when the Berlin Wall fell, the Nicolaikirche in Leipzig had gained a reputation as a gathering point for events signalling the end of an era of communist rule in what was then East Germany.
November 2, 2019

ACLU challenges FBI secrecy on facial recognition technology

The American Civil Liberties Union warns that face and other biometric surveillance technologies can enable the government to track people’s movements and associations in ways which threaten privacy and due process rights.
August 27, 2019

Call for immediate release of Jammu and Kashmir political leaders

Amnesty International has called for the release all political leaders and an end to the deliberate silencing of voices in the region.
July 22, 2019

Hungary's declared migrant ‘crisis’ does not correspond to reality, says UN expert

A UN expert has urged the Government of Hungary to immediately stop proclaiming it is confronting a 'crisis situation' due to migration.
January 8, 2019

Amnesty calls for Saudi woman to be protected from deportation

Amnesty International has responded to reports that Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, an 18-year-old Saudi woman, faces deportation from the transit zone hotel of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.
November 28, 2017

Cambodian Prime Minister calls for human rights centre to be shut down

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for the interior ministry to investigate and shut the Cambodian Center for Human Rights.
August 12, 2017

Almost 70,000 demand release of Liu Xiaobo's widow

Almost 70,000 people from around the world have urged the Chinese president to lift all restrictions against poet and artist Liu Xia, one month after the death of her husband, the Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.
May 22, 2014

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu in bid to attend UK events

Amnesty is urging the Israeli authorities to lift the travel ban on nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu so he can attend UK events on the protection of whistleblowers.