Children in domestic service live with a host family undertaking
domestic chores in return for their board and lodging. They are
frequently exploited, ill treated and denied their right to education,
healthcare and food. Their situation has been described as a form of
modern slavery by the UN.
Call on the Ministry of Transport to help increase access to health services for HIV, particularly for women, by improving the regularity and affordability of rural transport systems.
A new Amnesty International report urges the authorities to properly prosecute violence against women and not to dismiss it as a 'private family matter'.
Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Nicaraguan Supreme
Court continues to delay its judgment on the legality of new criminal
laws on abortion which entered into force in 2008.
The Peruvian Congress' has decided to stand by its proposal to
decriminalize abortion in cases where women and girls become pregnant
as a result of rape or incest.
The United Nations is a galvanizing force in setting new international standards and commitments to protect and promote women’s human rights especially those at risk of violence, or facing poverty. Make the United Nations more effective in realizing women’s rights.
Amnesty International has called for an international commission of inquiry to investigate the brutal attacks committed by soliders during the suppression of a mass rally in Conakry earlier this week.
