Amnesty International urges Israel to cease constructing illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories after a plan to build 1,600 new homes is approved.
Amnesty International is reiterating its call on the Israeli government to cease constructing or expanding illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) after a plan to build 1,
A new plan to close down many Roma camps in the city of Rome, paves the way for the forced eviction of thousands of people and for most (but not all) of them to be resettled on the outskirts.
Amnesty International has called for a review of a controversial housing plan that has resulted in the forced eviction of hundreds of Roma and paves the way for thousands more.
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Amnesty International has called on the Italian authorities to review a controversial housing plan that has resulted in the forced eviction of hundreds of Roma and paves the way for thousands more
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Life for the thousands of Roma who may be affected by the 'Nomad Plan'
The plan could see the destruction of over 100 Roma settlements across the capital
An estimated 6,000 Roma are to be resettled into just 13 new or expanded camps
Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced a proposal to take the children from the settlements where they live and place them in boarding schools.
Amnesty International has warned that establishing boarding schools for Romani children "and gradually detach[ing] them from the way of living they currently experience in the settlements" is discr
Local officers failed to respond quickly enough when an armed crowd attacked refugees and migrants in a township south east of Johannesburg in February.
Amnesty International urges the Nicaraguan authorities to provide a pregnant woman with cancer treatment that is currently being withheld because of a law that bans abortion.
Amnesty International has called on the Nicaraguan authorities to provide cancer treatment to a pregnant woman that is currently being withheld because of a law that bans abortion in all circumstan
Blaise Compaoré expressed his commitment to emergency obstetric care and access to family planning to delegation led by interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone.
The President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, has committed to lifting all financial barriers to emergency obstetric care and access to family planning, as part of a strategy to fight maternal mo
Alberta Alcántara and Teresa González Cornelio (pictured) were sentenced to 21 years in prison in January 2009, when they were convicted of kidnapping of six police officers.
Amnesty International on Friday accused the Mexican government of unfairly imprisoning two indigenous women for the kidnapping of six police officers in 2006 and demanded their immediate release.
Indian authorities have given local communities scant information about the potential impact of a refinery expansion and mining project proposed by subsidiaries of Vedanta Resources in Orissa.
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Indian authorities have given local communities scant or misleading information about the potential impact of a proposed alumina refinery expansion and mining project to be operated by subsidiaries
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There has been no process to seek the community’s informed consent.
Children playing in Kenduguda village, Orissa.
Villagers wash in the river Vamsadhara at Chattarpur.
Authorities told locals the refinery would transform the area.
Men on the wall of Vedanta alumina refinery’s second red mud pond, which is under construction, Lanjigarh.
A villager stands on land he once owned, beneath an unfinished conveyor belt designed to transport bauxite ore.
Kumati Majhi, a local leader opposing the Vedanta mining scheme, talks to the local Kondh villagers, Lanjigarh.
Video: The Dongria Kondh community describe the impact of the Vedanta project
