A 25 year old street vendor was shot dead in New York’s Time Square by a plainclothes New York police officer today.
According to another police officer who spoke on a condition of anonymity, the police officer that shot the vendor was investigating reports of vendors who were intimidating tourists. The vendors being investigated would approach [...]
A British soldier became the 100th British causality of 2009 in Afghanistan today. The British soldier from the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment was shot to death in central Helmand Province. The family has been informed but the name of the soldier has not been released to the public yet.
Since the mission began eight [...]
Gender discrimination, sexual violence and poverty are undermining global progress in tackling HIV/Aids, Amnesty International said on World Aids Day.Women are at greater risk of HIV infection and HIV has a particularly devastating impact on women and their families. Unless these gender disparities and their underlying causes are adequately addressed, efforts to reduce the spread [...]
Stephanie Goodwin, a senior Greenpeace forest campaigner from Vancouver, BC, watched from a boat along the adjacent river with two journalists as 12 other activists scaled four cranes at the port to stop pulp exports. They displayed a huge banner that read: “Forest Destruction: You can stop this.” The message is for world leaders, including [...]
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Amnesty International today congratulated US President Barack Obama on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 and urged him in the spirit of that award to keep justice, human rights and the rule of law at the centre of his efforts to promote peace.
“President Obama has taken some [...]
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Amnesty International has called on all states to suspend international supplies of military and police weaponry, munitions and other equipment that could be used to commit human rights violations by Guinean security forces.
The organisation is also calling for an international commission of inquiry to investigate the human rights [...]
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Washington, DC – President Obama’s approval ratings have not changed since late August, with 56% saying that they approve of how he is handling his job and 40% disapproving, according to a new telephone poll of over 1,200 adults conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs. Yet, a majority of Americans (56%) believe [...]
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As the international community prepares to mark the World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October, Amnesty International has highlighted two current execution cases – one in the USA, one in Iran.
Amnesty International is urging the Iranian authorities to rescind the death sentence imposed on Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, [...]
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A quarter of a million Sri Lankans now being held in de facto detention camps are facing a humanitarian disaster as monsoon rains threaten to flood camps, said Amnesty International on Thursday.
Months after the government of Sri Lanka set up camps in Vavuniya District in the north-east of [...]
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Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenka to grant clemency to a man who may be facing imminent execution.
Vasily Yusepchuk was sentenced to death by Brest Regional Court on 29 June 2009 for the murder of six elderly women.
On 2 October his appeal to [...]
