In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, the government
of Myanmar is deliberately impeding life-saving
assistance.
Rural women living with HIV in circumstances of poverty in South Africa face discrimination in relationships and in communities because of their gender, HIV status and economic marginalization.
There is concern about the increasingly difficult
human rights situation and living conditions of some 1.5 million
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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.
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.
Amnesty International today called on the parties involved in the future management of the Rafah crossing at the Gaza-Egypt border to ensure the fundamental rights of the people of Gaza. The governments of Israel and Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas de-facto administration in Gaza must guarantee the local population's rights to health and an adequate standard of living, and their right not to be subjected to collective punishment, including arbitrary restrictions on movement.
Israel has cut off the supply of electricity, fuel and humanitarian
assistance to the population of Gaza, a move Amnesty International has
condemned as collective punishment.
Amnesty International met with a leading NGO in Bangladesh to explore how the poor are organizing themselves to overcome poverty, gender inequality and illiteracy.
Human rights abuses can affect both individual and public health.
Amnesty International health professional network websites
