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19th September 2017
Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh should take help from global community to tide over humanitarian disaster

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13th September 2017
Sick, untreated and tormented: How Iranian authorities leave prisoners to suffer

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13th September 2017
“My time in jail has made me even more committed”: Salil Shetty meets Amnesty Turkey’s jailed director

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12th September 2017
They cannot forget. Neither should we

An ethnic Palaung woman carrying her child on the back, washing clothes, at Man Sar IDP camp, located on the outskirts of Kutkai, Northern Shan State, Myanmar, July 28, 2017. The camp is currently sheltering about 500 people who fled from three villages in Kutkai township. © Minzayar Oo - Panos / Amnesty International

8th September 2017
The US and EU risk sending the wrong message on Myanmar

Local residents walk through burnt houses in Maungdaw in Myanmar's Rakhine State, which has a large Muslim Rohingya population, on Dec. 21, 2016. They claim soldiers from the country's armed forces burned a village in October. A number of Rohingya women there also claim to have been raped. However, some villagers dispute the claims - journalists hear first hand from Myanmar's Rohingya on gov't tour
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8th September 2017
Who are the Rohingya and why are they fleeing Myanmar?

Activists gather at Bondi Beach in Sydney and other locations throughout Australia creating giant human life rings to show solidarity with refugees fleeing war and persecution, 8 May 2010. Those taking part in the events were urging the government to reverse the discriminatory freeze on processing of Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum applications, and the reopening of the remote Curtin detention centre.

18th August 2017
A Tragic and Avoidable Death on Manus Island

Imprisoned human rights defender Tep Vanny arrives for a court appearance.

2nd August 2017
“Even when she was beaten in protests, she would join the next day”

A handcuffed protester sits on the ground as Egyptian security forces move in to disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi by force in a huge camp in Cairo's Al-Nahda square on August 14, 2013. The operation began shortly after dawn when security forces surrounded the sprawling Rabaa al-Adawiya camp in east Cairo and a similar one at Al-Nahda square, in the centre of the capital, launching a long-threatened crackdown that left dozens dead. AFP PHOTO / ENGY IMAD (Photo credit should read Engy Imad/AFP/Getty Images)

26th July 2017
Stronger EU-Egypt ties must not come at the expense of human rights

25th July 2017
Arbitrary detentions in Mexico: ‘We never thought this could happen to us’

Liu Xiaobo and wife Liu Xia, August 2001.

Liu Xiaobo is a former participant in the 1989 pro-democracy student movement, he was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment on 25 December 2009, for initiating and signing Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political accountability and human rights protection. Articles he wrote about 4 June 1989 were cited in his verdict as evidence of “inciting subversion”.

14th July 2017
Speaking truth to power… and to all of us

This photo taken on October 4, 2016 shows Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gesturing as he delivers a speech during a "Talk to the Troops" visit to army personnel in Manila.
Duterte's popularity has soared during his first three months in office, an independent survey showed on October 6, in an apparent endorsement by Filipinos of his brutal crime crackdown. / AFP / TED ALJIBE (Photo credit should read TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images)

4th July 2017
One Year Later, Duterte Remains a Human Rights Nightmare

On 7 April 2017, the informal Romani settlement of Gianturco was forcibly evicted by local authorities in Naples, southern Italy. The community counted around 1,300 Romanian Roma, however many of them left the settlement in the days before the eviction due to repeated harrasment by authorities, feared how the eviction would be carried out and also were threatened with homelessness by authorities. On the day of the eviction, around 200/300 families were in the settlement. Around 130 of them were moved to a new segregated camp in Via del Riposo - where the previous camp was burnt down by unknown in 2011. Few families were offered as alternative a reception centre described " as a prison" by Roma themselves. Many others moved in temporarily with friends and related around Naples and outside, while others moved into existent informal settlements where they fear being forcibly evicted again. Few families are sleeping rough in their cars.

3rd July 2017
European Commission must deliver justice for Italy’s Roma

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27th June 2017
A safe haven for refugee women in Greece

Hungarian riot police used tear gas and water cannons on migrants who tried to broke through a razor wire fence the Serbia-Hungary border in Horgos, on September 16, 2015. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday slammed Hungary's treatment of migrants as unacceptable after police fired tear gas and water cannon at asylum-seekers at its border with Serbia. © NurPhoto/NurPhoto/Getty Images

16th June 2017
We will not be intimidated

CHINA. Beijing. Tien An Men Square. 'The Tank Man' stopping the column of T59 tanks. 4th June 1989.

4th June 2017
Tiananmen anniversary lays bare China’s contradictory attitude towards history

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