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South Africa: Rural women the losers in HIV response | Amnesty ...
18 March 2008

Rural women living with HIV in circumstances of poverty in South Africa face discrimination in relationships and in communities because of their gender, HIV

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Human Rights Day: Secretary General Irene Khan to address The ...
3 December 2007

Media Advisory: Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan, will be launching the organization's year-long activities to mark the 60th anni.

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South Africa: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review ...
20 November 2007

In this submission, Amnesty International provides information under sections C and D (as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information ...

Report       AFR 53/005/2007

2007 Elections to the United Nations Human Rights Council ...
1 May 2007

On 17 May 2007, UN Member States will elect 14 members of the UN Human Rights Council. Amnesty International is providing in this document a brief review of the ...

Report       IOR 41/012/2007

The Death Penalty Worldwide - Developments in 2006 (With ...
1 May 2007

The world continued to move closer to the universal abolition of capital punishment during 2006. By the end of the year 88 countries had abolished the death penalty ...

Report       ACT 50/005/2007

Pakistan/South Africa: Khalid Mehmood Rashid appears after 18 ...
17 April 2007

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PRESS RELEASE. News Flash. AI Index: AFR 53/003/2007 (Public). News Service No: 076. 17 April 2007. Pakistan/South ...

Press Release       AFR 53/003/2007

Death Penalty News - December 2006
1 December 2006

1.) Nigeria announces commutations; 2.) First executions in Bahrain in 10 years; 3) Death penalty statistics; 4.) Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq; 5) Moratorium ...

Newsletter       ACT 53/004/2006

South Africa: Shelter under threat
25 November 2006

Since 2004, the Sinethemba Shelter for Domestic Violence Victims, the only lodging of its kind in the south coast region of KwaZulu-Natal province, has offered ...

ActionDocument       AFR 53/003/2006

South Africa: Briefing for the Committee against Torture
14 November 2006

South Africa has made considerable progress in overcoming the legacy of decades of official denial of the widespread practice of torture by state security forces ...

Report       AFR 53/002/2006