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China’s Trade in Tools of Torture and Repression
This report focuses on China’s growing manufacture, sale and trade of a wide range of law enforcement equipment. Of particular…
September 26, 2014
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On the Brink of Death: Violence Against Women and the Abortion Ban in El Salvador
Every year, thousands of women and girls are denied their rights and choices by El Salvador’s total ban on abortion…
September 25, 2014
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Left in the Dark: International Military Operations in Afghanistan
A report on failures of accountability for civilian casualties caused by international military operations in Afghanistan.
August 11, 2014
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Entombed: Isolation in the US Federal Prison System
The USA stands virtually alone in the world in incarcerating thousands of prisoners in long term or indefinite solitary confinement,…
July 16, 2014
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Reflections and recommendations on truth, remedy and accountability as declassification of Senate Committee summary report on CIA secret detentions awaited.
Amnesty International calls for the full report to be declassified as a matter of priority –with redactions only where strictly…
June 25, 2014
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The Armed Forces Special Powers Act: A Renewed Debate in India on Human Rights and National Security
For decades, The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) has enabled serious human rights violations to be committed by soldiers…
June 24, 2014
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Capital Deficit: A Submission on the Death Penalty to the UN Human Rights Committee
Today 140 countries are abolitionist in law or practice. A small number of countries account for the bulk of the…
June 24, 2014
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‘How long are we going to live in this injustice?’: Egypt’s Christians caught between sectarian attacks and state inaction
An unprecedented wave of sectarian attacks on Coptic Christians swept Egypt on 14 August 2013 as the security forces violently…
June 24, 2014
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Bad information: Oil spill investigations in the Niger Delta
There are systemic flaws in the system for investigating oil spills in the Niger Delta: the outcome of these investigations…
June 24, 2014
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President and Congress should apply human rights principles and close Guantánamo
The US prison camp at Guantánamo is back on the political agenda. And the politicking again threatens to derail the…
June 16, 2014
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Silenced, Expelled, Imprisoned: Repression of Students and Academics in Iran
Iranian authorities have shown little or no regard for academic freedom and the human rights on which it depends, freedom…
May 30, 2014
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USA: Another Year, Same Missing Ingredient
Human Rights are still absent from counter-terrorism policy a year after President Obama proclaimed “America at crossroads.”
May 21, 2014