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El Salvador’s Supreme Court has, once again, put off a ruling on whether or not to allow a severely ill pregnant woman to have an abortion.

Women in Iran have been banned from running for presidency, contradicting a number of articles of the country's Constitution.

Police in the Georgian capital Tbilisi failed to protect LGBTI activists as thousands of people violently attacked a Pride event today in what Amnesty International said was an ineffective response to organized and violent homophobia. 

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 Annual Report 12

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Rampant repression
Eritrea's forgotten prisoners exposed

Guantánamo Bay: A decade of damage
Indefinite detention must end as Guantánamo detainees' hunger strike grows.


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