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Man with children in Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, near Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan.

African organizations call on Sudan to readmit aid agencies

8 April 2009

A series of simultaneous press conferences were held in seven African countries on Wednesday to warn that millions of people in Darfur face death and disease.
Children from Sawhoyamaxa community taking part in workshop with Amnesty International, Kilómetro 16, Paraguay, 27 November 2008

Paraguay's Indigenous Peoples in peril

31 March 2009

The Paraguayan state is failing to adequately protect the rights of its Indigenous Peoples, forcing many to live in misery and effectively condemning some to death.
Witch doctor in The Gambia

Hundreds accused of 'witchcraft' persecuted in The Gambia

18 March 2009

Up to 1,000 people have been taken from their villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctio
Man with children in Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, near Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan.

Millions face starvation and disease as aid agencies are expelled from Darfur

5 March 2009

The expulsions came soon after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes a
Sri Lankan soldiers after capturing Tamil Tiger base, northern Sri Lanka, 2 January 2009

Call for a truce in Sri Lanka as humanitarian situation deteriorates

6 February 2009

Amnesty International has called for a temporary truce and for the creation of humanitarian corridors to allow more than quarter of a million trapped civilians to es
Barack Obama, as US President, takes the oath of office

Obama - a chance to build respect for human rights

28 January 2009

In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama rejected as "false" the choice between safety and respect for human rights.
Ambulance hit by missile on 4 January 2009 from drone while picking up wounded militants in Beit Lahya, Gaza

Attacks on ambulance workers in Gaza

28 January 2009

Emergency medical rescue workers, including doctors, paramedics and ambulance drivers, have repeatedly come under fire from Israeli forces in the Gaza conflict while c
Barack Obama, as US President, takes the oath of office

Building trust and respect for human rights

28 January 2009

Those who watched Barack Obama take office on 20 January were part of a far-reaching celebration of the once seemingly impossible becoming reality.
In the Zaitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City rescue workers pulling out the bodies of members of the Sammuni family from the rubble

Amnesty International team talks to Gaza survivors

21 January 2009

Thousands of people who fled their homes for fear of Israeli attacks, are returning to find them destroyed. The fact-finding mission spoke to them, and to doctors abou
The rubble of the American School in Gaza, 19 January 2009

Amnesty International team reports from the rubble of Gaza

20 January 2009

Israeli shelling has flattened previously busy neighbourhoods into moonscapes. 'There is no camera lens wide enough to embrace the sheer dimensions of the devastation.