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Kenyan activists receive death threats

1 February 2008

Amnesty International has called for the protection of several Kenyan human rights activists who have received death threats in the last two weeks.

Europe moves to protect trafficked people

1 February 2008

Europe has taken a further step towards protecting people who have been trafficked with the entry into force of a new convention.

War crimes go unpunished in Guatemala

31 January 2008

Over a decade after the end of Guatemala's armed conflict, many of those responsible for its most brutal crimes continue to evade criminal prosecution.

Egypt blocks Gazans' access to the outside world

31 January 2008

More than 1,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have become stuck in the northern Sinai region of Egypt as the Egyptian authorities try to force them back into Gaza

Justice failed in Kosovo

30 January 2008

War crimes and crimes against humanity from the Kosovo conflict in the late 1990s risk being left unpunished as a result of a failed UN justice mission.

Demonstration marks Musharraf London visit

29 January 2008

A group of vocal demonstrators responded to Pakistan's President Musharraf to London on Saturday.

Killings continue in Kenya

28 January 2008

Reports from Kenya indicate that up to 70 people have been killed in ethnic killings since Thursday.

The dangers of speaking out in Syria

28 January 2008

Being a Syrian political or human rights activist requires courage -- the government is intolerant of dissent.

Arrests of political activists increase in Myanmar

25 January 2008

Political activists continue to be imprisoned in Myanmar, according to new research by Amnesty International. There have been 96 arrests since 1 November 2007.

Gaza must not be cut off from the world

25 January 2008

The Egyptian authorities began efforts to reclose the country's border with Gaza, three days after Palestinian militants blew open breaches in the border wall. 

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