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Amnesty International  Report 2013


The 2013 Annual Report on
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UN Human Rights Council Fourteenth Session, 31 May - 18 June 2010 ...
1 May 2010

Amnesty International submitted these written statements to the fourteenth session of the UN Human Rights Council, which took place from 31 May to 18 June 2010. ...

Report       IOR 41/014/2010

Sri Lanka's new parliament must drop emergency laws | Amnesty ...
20 April 2010

The laws grant sweeping powers of detention, permit the use of secret prisons and encourage torture, enforced disappearances and other abuses.

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Amnesty International | Sri Lanka's new parliament must drop ...
20 April 2010

Sri Lanka's first post-war parliament must get rid of draconian emergency laws that have allowed for decades of widespread human rights abuses, Amnesty International ...

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Amnesty International | Australia asylum suspension could harm ...
9 April 2010

Amnesty International has condemned the Australian Government's suspension of the processing of new asylum claims by Afghan and Sri Lankan nationals, which is ...

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Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan activists threatened
10 March 2010

On 2 March, a Sri Lankan news website, Lankanewsweb, published the names of human rights defenders and journalists featured on a list it alleged was compiled by ...

Urgent Action       ASA 37/005/2010

Amnesty International | Sri Lanka: End Witch Hunt Against the ...
10 March 2010

The Sri Lankan government should end its harassment of journalists and activists and take steps against those making threats, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty ...

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Sri Lanka: Human rights defender missing in Sri Lanka: Pattani ...
18 February 2010

Human rights defender Pattani Razeek has been missing since he was apparently abducted on 11 February in the town of Polonnaruwa, in Sri Lanka's North Central Province ...

Urgent Action       ASA 37/004/2010

Sri Lanka: Demand investigation into missing journalist
26 January 2010

Sri Lankan journalist and political analyst Prageeth Eknaligoda went missing on 24 January 2010 from Homagama, near the capital Colombo. His wife, Sandya Eknaligoda ...

Urgent Action       ASA 37/003/2010

Sri Lanka: Time for a new start: An appeal to Sri Lanka's ...
18 January 2010

In this document Amnesty International urges Sri Lanka's Presidential candidates to commit publicly to fulfilling Sri Lanka's international human rights obligations ...

Open Letter       ASA 37/002/2010

Sri Lanka: Time for a new start (Sinhalese)
18 January 2010

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Open Letter       ASA 37/002/2010