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Category Archives: Right to Health
Conflicts of interest and exclusion in Niger Delta oil spill investigation and clean-up
By Audrey Gaughran, Amnesty International’s Director of Global Thematic Issues, Madhu Malhotra, Director of Amnesty International’s Gender, Sexuality and Identity Programme, and Oluwatosin Popoola, Amnesty International’s researcher on Nigeria. We have just come back from the Niger Delta, where we … Continue reading
Talking easily about condoms
By Abhiram Roy, campaigner at Amnesty International Nepal. “I was amazed to see people talking easily about condoms,” says Sagar Budhathoki from youth peer education network Y-PEER Nepal, about his first sexual and reproductive rights training session a few years … Continue reading
Posted in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights, Maternal Mortality and Reproductive Rights, Maternal Mortality and Reproductive Rights, Nepal, Poverty, Right to Health, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Women, Women's Rights
Tagged My Body My Rights
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Shell’s Niger Delta pollution: the good, the bad and the ongoing quest for justice
By Audrey Gaughran, Amnesty International’s Africa Programme Director This week’s ruling by a Dutch court in a case brought by four Nigerian farmers against the oil company Shell for pollution damage represents a small victory – but also underlines the … Continue reading
New route to justice one step closer to reality
By Karen Mullin, Campaigner on Make our Rights Law, Amnesty International’s Demand Dignity Campaign Imagine you have been forcibly evicted from your home. Your family is left homeless, but the law in your country offers you no protection and no compensation. … Continue reading
Posted in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights, Portugal, Right to Food, Right to Health, Right to Water, Slums and the Right to Housing
Tagged Armed conflict, civilians, Demand Dignity, education, ESCR, Forced Evictions, health, housing, Poverty, Southern Kordofan
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