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Category Archives: Poverty
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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50,000 activists say “NO” to discrimination against Romani people in Italy
By Fernando Chironda from Amnesty International Italy This year, Amnesty International’s campaign for Romani people’s human rights in Italy started out stronger than ever. Last month, we delivered almost 50,000 signatures from all over the world to the Italian Prime … Continue reading
Bold, ambitious action needed from leaders at Rio+20
By Savio Carvalho, Director of Amnesty International’s Demand Dignity Programme, writing from Rio de Janeiro (Follow him on Twitter – @SavioConnects) Late into one of the negotiation sessions at the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development, references to “freedom of speech … Continue reading
Roma moved ‘like pawns on a chessboard’ under Rome’s ’Nomad Plan’
By Matteo de Bellis, Campaigner for Amnesty International’s EU team With summer holidays upon them, many school-children in Rome are about to enjoy a few months respite from study. But for Roma children living in the Tor de’ Cenci camp, … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Italy, Racial Discrimination, Slums/Housing
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In pictures: People live here, say thousands of activists across Africa
By Bridget Burrows, Africa Regional Campaigner Slums, Amnesty International, From N’Djamena to Harare, Cairo to Accra, Port Harcourt to Nairobi, thousands of residents of slums and informal settlements and people affected by forced evictions mobilized from 17-25 March calling for … Continue reading