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After 50 Yrs Of Global Effort To Abolish Torture, Much Work Remains

The world’s first conference on the abolition of torture drew more than 300 delegates representing over 70 countries and international…

4 months ago
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Cease ‘Mass Forced Evictions’ At Angkor Wat: Amnesty International

The Cambodian government’s ongoing removal of a reported ten thousand families from the Angkor Wat temple complex amounts to mass…

1 year ago
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Iranian Child Detainees Face Torture In Brutal Protest Crackdown

Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other…

1 year ago
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Woman Dies Days After Arrest Over Hijab In Iran

A young Iranian woman who fell into a coma after being arrested in Tehran by the notorious morality police died…

2 years ago
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FB Critics Call For The Release Of India Human Rights Review

Facebook critics on Wednesday called on the world's largest social network to release a human rights impact assessment it commissioned…

2 years ago
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Phones Of Indian Politicians, Journalists Hacked

Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments using hacking software sold by…

3 years ago
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Amnesty International Says Russia May Be Slowly Killing Navalny

Alexei Navalny, the prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is incarcerated in conditions that amount to torture and may…

3 years ago
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Myanmar Protesters Stage Rallies As Army Adopts Battle Tactics

Protesters took to the streets in several parts of Myanmar on Thursday, defying an increasingly brutal crackdown by security forces…

3 years ago
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Mob Attacks, Sets Ablaze Hindu Temple In Pakistan

A mob in northwestern Pakistan attacked and set ablaze a century-old Hindu temple on Wednesday, officials said, prompting condemnations from…

3 years ago
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Human Rights Groups Join Lawsuit Against Spyware Vendor

A coalition of human rights groups on Wednesday joined Facebook’s lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO, alleging that the company…

3 years ago
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Prominent Baloch Activist Found Dead In Canada

A prominent Baloch activist, Karima Baloch, who took on the Pakistan Army over human rights abuses in Balochistan, was found…

3 years ago
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‘Rich Countries Have Bought Too Many COVID-19 Vaccines’

Rich countries have secured enough coronavirus vaccines to protect their populations nearly three times over by the end of 2021,…

3 years ago
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Ban On High-Speed Internet In Kashmir Extended

The ban on high-speed internet in 18 out of 20 districts of Kashmir has been extended until November 12. In…

4 years ago
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Amnesty Halts India Ops, Says Facing Witch-Hunt

Human rights group Amnesty International stopped its work in India on Tuesday saying the government had frozen its bank accounts…

4 years ago
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Khashoggi Murder: Saudi Arabia Sentences Five To Death

Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three to jail over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal…

4 years ago
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Three Die In Protests Against New Citizenship Law In India

Three people died of injuries sustained in intensifying protests against a new citizenship law in India on Thursday with thousands…

4 years ago
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CBI Raids Amnesty International Offices In India

India’s central investigating agency raided the local offices of human rights group Amnesty International on Friday, the Central Bureau of…

4 years ago
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Thousands Detained In Kashmir Crackdown, Official Data Reveals

Authorities in Kashmir have arrested nearly 4,000 people since the scrapping of its special status last month, government data shows,…

5 years ago
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In Kashmir, Shopkeepers Refuse To Open Despite India Easing Some Curbs

A month after India withdrew contested Kashmir’s autonomy, locked it down with thousands of additional troops and made mass arrests,…

5 years ago
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Some Signs Of Normality Return To Kashmir, But India’s Clampdown Still Strict

For the first time in six days, India eased travel restrictions in some parts of Srinagar on Saturday, and people…

5 years ago

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