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US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2017.
US President Donald Trump signed executive orders January 24, 2017 reviving the construction of two controversial oil pipelines, but said the projects would be subject to renegotiation. Trump gave an amber light to the Keystone XL pipeline -- which would carry crude from Canada to US refineries on the Gulf Coast -- and an equally controversial pipeline crossing in North Dakota.
/ AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

13th February 2017
Donald Trump Is Alienating His Most Valuable Allies

A man prays in the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on December 30, 2016.
There are over 60,000 refugees and migrants trapped in Greece after EU and Balkan countries further north shut their borders nearly a year ago. / AFP / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

10th February 2017
Europe’s cruel migration policies weaken its Trump criticism

Edward Snowden, in Moscow, Russia, 16 October 2016. Snowden was a former intelligence officer who served the CIA, NSA, and DIA for nearly a decade as a subject matter expert on technology and cybersecurity. In 2013, he revealed the NSA was unconstitutionally seizing the private records of billions of individuals who had not been suspected of any wrongdoing.

8th February 2017
Edward Snowden: “Your support keeps me company during the fight.”

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2017.
US President Donald Trump signed executive orders January 24, 2017 reviving the construction of two controversial oil pipelines, but said the projects would be subject to renegotiation. Trump gave an amber light to the Keystone XL pipeline -- which would carry crude from Canada to US refineries on the Gulf Coast -- and an equally controversial pipeline crossing in North Dakota.
/ AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

6th February 2017
USA: Trump’s seven first steps to sabotage human rights

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30th January 2017
Aid services slowly resume in North Rakine

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30th January 2017
The US War on Muslim Refugees

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30th January 2017
Trump’s Global Gag a Devastating Blow for Women’s Rights

Amnesty International mission delegates (Tracy Ulveit Moe and Nigel Rodley) interview a woman re the disappearance of her husband, Hotel Camero Real, Guatemala, April 1985.

26th January 2017
Nigel Rodley 1941 – 2017

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24th January 2017
China’s lawyers crackdown: “All he had done was carry out his job”

Photos from mission to Belgrade, Serbia 5 & 6 January 2017.

An estimated 1,200 refugees and migrants sleeping rough in abandoned warehouses in central Belgrade. The conditions seen by Amnesty International are inhuman and current winter temperatures reaching -20 C expose them to serious risks of illness. At the time of AI's visit, the Serbian authorities are failing to provide them with adequate food, water and sanitation, healthcare, appropriate clothing and basic accommodation.

People are forced to light fires and burn branches and scrap materials, including plastics they collect to keep warm, creating toxic fumes and threatening further injuries and fire in the warehouses. Unaccompanied children, as young as 11 represent a quarter of the population in the warehouses.

23rd January 2017
Left out in the cold

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18th January 2017
Beware the march of draconian counter-terrorism laws in Europe

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18th January 2017
USA: Commutation for Chelsea Manning, long overdue positive step for human rights

Turkish solders stay at Taksim square as people react in Istanbul on July 16, 2016
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10th January 2017
Between terror and the government crackdown, Turkish society is under threat

Refugees on the island of Chios, Greece, November, 2016.

Majd and Manal are a Syrian couple who fled Aleppo with their two daughters, Luna (age 15) and Dana (age 10). Majd was a factory owner and Manal, a university professor of technical dentistry. Their son Jude who is 20 years old, is already a recognized refugee in Germany. The family is afraid they may be returned to Turkey despite having family in Europe.

The family fled the horrors of the war in Syria and faced more danger when they attempted to cross to Turkey. ‘We lost everything …One day, my son saw a bomb coming from the sky and landing in the neighborhood and the glass fell on him… At that point we decided to move… The second time, we managed to cross the Turkish border, at the time the Turkish police started to shoot us and some of us died… nine of (our group) died’.

The family arrived on the island of Chios, the day that the EU-Turkey deal came into effect, on 20 March 2016. They remained in detention on Chios and on Leros refugee camps nearly 60 days and then could not leave Leros until the end of September despite the fact that doctors had referred Manal for hospital tests to Athens. Once in Athens they were not offered a shelter by the authorities. However, a Greek couple and their son who they met on Chios welcomed the family into their house.

“We did not come to Europe to steal food from people, to take job, to make problems. We came here because we are looking for a safe place… This is the heart of Europe and we (refugees) are living in tents and we do not have protection…..”, said Majd

21st December 2016
Syria’s refugee crisis in numbers

PEOPLE DISPLACED BY VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN JEBEL MARRA IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2016, GATHER AROUND THE UNAMID BASE IN SORTONI, DARFUR.

Photograph provided by third party sources who met with survivors of attacks.

20th December 2016
Time to get serious about civilian protection for Darfur

Harvester using dodos (short pole with a chisel used to harvest fruits from trees up to three metres tall).

12th December 2016
Palm Oil and human rights: What you need to know

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