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Amnesty International  Report 2012


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Sierra Leone: Bring free health care into law in Sierra Leone
8 April 2013

Your Excellency,. Under the free health care initiative, many women and girls living in poverty in Sierra Leone have been able to ...

Document       AFR 51/001/2013

Amnesty International | Vanuatu, Sierra Leone and Ghana: Safe ...
18 December 2012

Legal loopholes in Vanuatu, Sierra Leone and Ghana make all three countries potential safe havens for fugitives suspected of war crime and crimes against humanity ...

Press Release      

Sierra Leone: End impunity through universal jurisdiction [No Safe ...
18 December 2012

States where genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions occur often fail to investigate and ...

Document       AFR 51/007/2012

Sierra Leone's candidacy for election to the UN Human Rights ...
2 November 2012

In this open letter, Amnesty International urges the government of Sierra Leone to further strengthen its election pledges by including the additional elements ...

Open Letter       AFR 51/009/2012

Sierra Leone November 2012 elections: Briefing to monitors and ...
31 October 2012

In the run-up to the Presidential, Parliamentary and local elections in Sierra Leone on 17 November 2012, Amnesty International calls upon election monitors and ...

Document       AFR 51/008/2012

Dear President: are you doing enough to protect the human rights ...
8 October 2012

Take action to Protect Free Health Care.

Action Document      

Sierra Leone: Briefing on the events in Bumbuna, Tonkolili
19 September 2012

In April 2012 police in the town of Bumbuna fired live ammunition at unarmed community members and threatened numerous individuals. Employees of an iron-ore mining ...

Report       AFR 51/004/2012

Amnesty International | Sierra Leone: Police officers who went on ...
19 September 2012

The perpetrators of a three day police rampage through the Sierra Leonean mining town of Bumbuna, during which a woman was shot dead, at least 11 people were injured ...

Press Release      

Sierra Leone: A seven point human rights agenda for candidates in ...
10 September 2012

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AFR 51/006/2012. 10 September 2012. A seven point human rights agenda for candidates ...

Public Statement       AFR 51/006/2012

Sierra Leone: A seven point human rights agenda for candidates in ...
4 September 2012

On 17 November 2012, Sierra Leone will hold Presidential, Parliamentary and local elections. In the lead up to the elections, Amnesty International and Sierra Leone ...

Document       AFR 51/005/2012