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UN counter-terrorism review should make human rights a priority

As the United Nations General Assembly conducts the first major review of its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, an Amnesty International report shows how governments have so far failed to uphold the Strategy's human rights standards.

Thailand's state of emergency should not infringe on human rights

Amnesty International urges the Thai government to respect human rights and to remove restrictions on free speech contained in the emergency decree.

Protest launches tour against enforced disappearance in Pakistan

On the 25th International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International and Amina Janjua, the founder of Defence of Human Rights, called upon the Pakistan government to reveal the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of disappeared people.

Iran: End pressure on women’s rights defenders

In the second anniversary of the launch of the Campaign for Equality on 27 August, Amnesty International is renewing its demand that the Iranian authorities cease harassing and imprisoning women’s rights defenders and to restrict their campaigning activities

The need for comprehensive justice across the former Yugoslavia

The trial of Radovan Karadzic resumes today in The Hague. But are a small number of high profile trials enough to heal the wounds caused by the horrific violations of human rights committed by all sides to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

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In focus ›

The Day of the Disappeared: 25 Years on
- Victims of enforced disappearance remembered.

Musharraf is gone, but still no sign of the disappeared
- A message to Pakistan's new government from Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

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Zmitser Dashkevich, a leader of the youth opposition movement Малады фронт (Young Front)

Belarus must respect freedom of assembly, association and expression

Since it was introduced in 2005, Belarusian authorities have used Article 193-1 to arrest, detain and convict youth activists and members of NGOs for exercising their human rights.

Major step forward in Paraguay's investigations into sexual slavery of girls

Julia Ozorio Gamecho is the first woman to tell the Truth and Justice Commission about how she was sexually abused by the military during General Alfredo Stroessner's regime.

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