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All Rights for All People

Millions of people are imprisoned in poverty. Thousands die each day from hunger and preventable disease. Untold numbers go without clean water, education, and work.

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Dear Mandela, Dear Obama?
A new film on South Africa's shack dwellers movement provides important lessons for the housing crisis in the US.
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News
Greece: Emergency action to thwart teachers’ strike unnecessary
The use of special government measures to thwart a proposed teachers’ strike in Greece is disproportionate and in violation of the country’s international human rights obligations.
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Victory
Evicted Roma families in Serbia are finally granted access to water

Action by Amnesty International has prompted the authorities in the Serbian city of Nis to supply drinking water to Roma families who were forcibly evicted from their homes in the capital Belgrade...

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Fleeing War, Finding Misery: The Plight of the Internally Displaced in Afghanistan

As Afghans flee conflict and abandon their homes, the country faces a housing and humanitarian crisis that takes a terrible toll on children and families.

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Fight Poverty with Human Rights Issues

Demand Dignity

Amnesty International's Demand Dignity Campaign works to end the human rights abuses that imprison people in poverty.
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Maternal Health

Around the world, one woman dies every 90 seconds from complications of pregnancy or childbirth - that's more than 350,000 women every year. The vast majority of these deaths are preventable.
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Roma Families

In 2004, around 100 Roma people were forcibly evicted from their home and moved to inhumane conditions near a sewage treatment plant. Despite being told this was temporary, they are still there.
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Poverty and Human Rights

Human rights abuses are a cause and a consequence of poverty. No one should be denied their rights to adequate housing, food, water and sanitation, and to education and health care.
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