Tens of thousands of displaced people are still unable to return home after the Georgia-Russia conflict. Amnesty International collected eye-witness accounts from survivors of the hostilities and took photographs of the war's aftermath.
Some 150,000 Cambodians live at risk of being forcibly evicted in the
wake of land disputes, land grabbing and agro-industrial and urban
redevelopment projects in 2008.
Two years after the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya,
human rights activists and journalists are still at risk in the Russian
Federation, in particular in the North Caucasus region.
The choice of the Angolan capital Luanda to lead the global observance
of this year's World Habitat Day provoked controversy among housing and
human rights organizations.
As World Habitat Day focuses on the state of the housing rights situation across the globe, here are case studies from cities in Cambodia, Brazil, Italy, Israel and Angola.
Tens of thousands of displaced people are still unable to return home after the Georgia-Russia conflict. Amnesty International collected eye-witness accounts from survivors of the hostilities and took photographs of the war's aftermath.
Child soldiers are still being recruited to fight in the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is also continuing physical and sexual abuse of women and children in the conflict.
Amnesty International confirmed on Friday that one of the seven
prisoners of conscience freed this week, U Win Htein, was re-arrested a
few hours after his release.
Some 150,000 Cambodians live at risk of being forcibly evicted in the
wake of land disputes, land grabbing and agro-industrial and urban
redevelopment projects in 2008.
