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Dominican Republic: Peaceful protestors harassed and arrested

Activists peacefully demonstrating in the Dominican Republic against discrimination suffered by Dominicans of Haitian descent were arbitrarily arrested by the police ...

12 Mar 2013       Urgent Action       AMR 27/003/2013

Maldives: Further information: Government to protect 15-year-old ...

The government of Maldives has recently committed to protecting a 15-year-old, who was found guilty of “fornication” and sentenced to house arrest and flogging. ...

12 Mar 2013       Urgent Action       ASA 29/004/2013

USA: Further information: Kimberly Rivera to be sentenced on 29 ...

A plea agreement has been reached between US servicewoman Kimberly Rivera's lawyers and the military authorities. A hearing to determine the length of her sentence ...

12 Mar 2013       Urgent Action       AMR 51/013/2013

Syria: Men in video “confessions” feared tortured

Four Syrian men identified in televised “confessions” as involved in a plot to assassinate Syria's president have been held incommunicado for 10 weeks, during ...

12 Mar 2013       Urgent Action       MDE 24/007/2013

Guatemalan human rights defenders at risk

Human rights defender and trade unionist Carlos Hernández was shot dead on 8 March in Chiquimula department, eastern Guatemala. He may have been targeted for his ...

12 Mar 2013       Urgent Action       AMR 34/002/2013

Mexico: Irregular migrants in Mexico: Ten urgent measures to save ...

The number of irregular migrants crossing Mexico increased in 2012 and routine abductions, sexual violence, forced recruitment into criminal gangs, people trafficking ...

12 Mar 2013       Document       AMR 41/011/2013

Final UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY . AI Index: ACT 30/018/2013. 12 March 2013 . Final UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty. ...

12 Mar 2013       PressItem       ACT 30/018/2013

Major powers fuelling atrocities: Why the world needs a robust ...

Every year, thousands of people are killed, injured, raped and forced to flee from their homes as a result of abuses and atrocities committed with conventional ...

12 Mar 2013       Document       ACT 30/001/2013

Iran: UN Human Rights Council Twenty-Second Session, 25 February ...

In this oral intervention Südwind and Amnesty International express concern that discriminatory selection procedures for candidates, as well as restrictions of ...

12 Mar 2013       Open Letter       MDE 13/012/2013

Mexico: Death threat for defending migrants

A man believed to be involved in extortion of money from irregular migrants has threatened to kill an activist for migrants' rights in southern Mexico.

11 Mar 2013       Urgent Action       AMR 41/010/2013