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It’s been a busy few days for Baltic Pride. It was happening, then it was banned on Thursday and in court on Friday morning when it was back on track.
A roomful of Amnesty International from across Europe, from the Faroe Islands to Turkey, have gathered in Riga to support Baltic Pride.
Right now, we’re getting to know each other, discussing the safety issues and plans for the day and individual delegates will soon collect their t-shirt from the rainbow coloured selection.
Vigil for Tissa in London ©Amnesty International
Tissa has been named a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International who believes that he has been imprisoned for simply carrying out his journalist activities. Tissa has become an emblematic case for what has become the fate of many journalists and media workers in Sri Lanka held under sweeping terrorist legislation.
Continue reading ‘Vigil for imprisoned journalist in Sri Lanka’
Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Irene Khan, is at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ms Khan contributed to YouTube’s The Davos Debates, giving her view of the issues surrounding the Forum.
'Abdallah Qishqu, whose house was destroyed by an Israeli air strike on 28 December, speaking to Amnesty International mission delegates, Gaza, 20 January 2009 ©Amnesty International
Today, Tuesday, it seemed as though Gaza was beginning to draw a collective breath after the shock of the past three weeks of Israeli bombardments. The streets, previously deserted, filled up again and tens of thousands of people who had fled their homes for fear of Israeli attacks began returning to them. But thousands have no homes to which to return because so many were destroyed by Israeli forces.
In Gaza City’s Zaitoun neighbourhood, where scores of homes were flattened by Israeli air strikes and bulldozers women and children were rummaging through the rubble of their homes, trying to recover the little that could be salvaged.
Continue reading ‘Doctors struggle to deal with unusual wounds’
Amnesty International invited the world to call on the Chinese authorities to deliver a positive and lasting human rights legacy for the Beijing Olympics.
Continue reading ‘A human rights legacy for the Beijing Olympics’
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