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Our huge recent win of a new global Arms Trade Treaty shows that when people take injustice personally, it can grow into a powerful force for change. In WIRE May/June, read interviews with people who have been arrested just for … Continue reading
Libyan militias fighting to hold on to their grip on power
Amnesty International researchers have been in Libya looking at what’s happened in the country since the downfall of former leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. This is what they found: The number of armed men at checkpoints, hanging about on street corners and … Continue reading
Posted in Libya, Middle East And North Africa, Torture and Ill-treatment
Tagged impunity, Libya, militias
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Italian pardon of US military officer sets stage for impunity
By Julia Hall, Amnesty International’s expert on counter-terrorism and human rights Al Jazeera originally published this on 18 April 2013. The recent pardon of a US national convicted in absentia in the 2003 kidnapping case of Abu Omar is a … Continue reading
Posted in Italy, Torture and Ill-treatment
Tagged abduction, renditions, Security and human rights, torture
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Political violence in Zimbabwe ahead of referendum tomorrow
It is a day before Zimbabwe votes on a referendum on the new constitution and the ugly sight of political violence is back on the streets of Harare and Bulawayo. At 11 o’clock this morning, nine activists from Prime Minister … Continue reading
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“I can’t believe he’s not here anymore,” Lubou Kavalyoua told WIRE about her son, Ulad, who was executed and buried in secret last year. She still doesn’t know where his grave is. Read their story on page 18 in WIRE … Continue reading
Posted in Abolish the death penalty, Arms Trade, Belarus, Control Arms, Death Penalty, Demand Dignity, Detention, Discrimination, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, EU, Europe And Central Asia, Human Rights Defenders and Activists, Hungary, Individuals at Risk, International Justice, Iraq, Prisoners of Conscience, Racial Discrimination, Security with Human Rights, Slums and the Right to Housing, Syria, Torture and Ill-treatment, Uncategorized, Unfair Trials, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
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