As part of the sixth annual World Day against the Death Penalty, Amnesty International calls on India to take a step towards abolishing the death penalty.
Attacks at the end of the first day of the Sarajevo Queer Festival left eight people injured and
forced the organizers to
close the rest of the festival to the public and eventually cancel the
whole event.
Romani communities and settlements in Italy are being subjected to ongoing discrimination, both from the Italian authorities and members of the public.
Since it was introduced in 2005, Belarusian authorities have used Article 193-1 to arrest, detain
and convict youth activists and members of NGOs for
exercising their human rights.
Rape is widespread throughout Burundi, though many cases, remain unprosecuted. Women are often too afraid to even report the crime out of fear that their families and communities will reject them. Demand justice in the case of 13 year-old Kaneza.
Thousands of women known as ‘comfort women’, were forced into sexual servitude by the Government of Japan for sexual servitude for the armed forces in the 1930s before and after the Second World War. These women are still waiting for justice.
A local court in Istanbul ordered the closure of the Turkish lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender solidarity organization, Lambda Istanbul. Such a closure violates the right to freedom of association.
