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Appeals for Action

<p>Amnesty International has helped save thousands of lives by stopping torture, preventing executions and protecting human rights defenders.</p>

World Day Against the Death Penalty, South Korea, 10 October 2009

South Korea must establish an official moratorium on executions

30 October 2009

Since the beginning of 2009, Amnesty International has been concerned that the South Korean government is taking steps towards resuming executions. Sixty prisoners currently remain under sentence of death.

European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France

Denied protection in Turkey - refugees unlawfully detained

27 October 2009

Every year, thousands of people from countries including Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran arrive in Turkey seeking protection from persecution.

Brad Will was killed in Oaxaca on 27 October 2006.

Demand justice for killing of journalist in Mexico

23 October 2009

On 27 October 2006, US video journalist Brad Will was shot and killed as he filmed clashes in Oaxaca City.

Call on chemical company to address the legacy of Bhopal

16 October 2009

When thousands of tonnes of deadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, India on 2 December 1984, around half a million people were exposed.

Bhopal - Indian government must end 25 years of injustice

16 October 2009

When thousands of tonnes of deadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, India on 2 December 1984, around half a million people were exposed.

Upholding human rights while confronting climate change

29 September 2009

Unless states take prompt, adequate action to address its effects, climate change could become a major threat to the realization of human rights.

Artwork by Aishah, aged 13, daughter of disappeared Masood Janjua, taken during a bus trip to Peshawar, Pakistan, 30 July 2005

Seven more ratifications needed for Enforced Disappearance Convention to enter into force

28 August 2009

Governments use enforced disappearance as a tool of repression to silence dissent and eliminate political opposition, as well as to persecute ethnic, religious and political groups. Seven more countries need to commit to the UN's Convention on Enforced Disappearance for it to come into force.