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  • Pakistan: Government must protect Swat valley residents from abuses

    The Pakistani government should act immediately to protect hundreds of thousands of people from insurgents in the Swat valley and elsewhere in the country, Amnesty International said today. According to official estimates, over the past year more than 1,200 people have been killed and an estimated 200,000 – 500,000 have been displaced from the Swat…

  • Pakistani government must protect Swat valley civilians

    According to official estimates, over the past year more than 1,200 people have been killed and between 200,000 and 500,000 have been displaced in the Swat valley as a result of fighting between Pakistani Taleban groups and the military. The Pakistani government is being urged to act immediately to protect hundreds of thousands of people…

  • Pakistan: Anniversary of Bhutto’s Assassination Marks Failure of Pakistani Government’s Response to Attacks

    The first anniversary of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on 27 December marks a year of failure by Pakistan’s leaders to investigate and bring to justice those responsible for this and other political and civilian killings, said Amnesty International today. The organization repeated its condemnation of those who murdered Benazir Bhutto and other Pakistan People’s…

  • Colombia’s ‘Victims Law’ is discriminatory

    A draft law in Colombia aiming to grant reparation to victims of the country’s 40-year conflict has been called “discriminatory” by Amnesty International. Under the current draft, victims of paramilitary and guerrilla groups will be able to receive almost immediate monetary compensation via administrative decision. However, victims of the security forces – including the families…

  • Colombia: Congress must not approve seriously flawed “Victims’ Law”

    Amnesty International today called on the Colombian Congress not to approve the draft “Victims’ Law”.  This draft followed the government’s watering down of the original bill, which would have gone some way towards guaranteeing reparation to the victims of the country’s 40-year internal armed conflict. “The original draft did offer some hope of reparation to…

  • United Nations: Breakthrough in access to justice for all rights

    Amnesty International welcomed today’s adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, by the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee in New York.   “Many of those who have suffered violations of their rights, including rights to adequate housing, food, water and sanitation, health, education and decent work, are…

  • Landslide UN vote in favour of Arms Trade Treaty

    Today 147 states at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to move forward with work on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The Control Arms campaign, which represents millions of campaigners around the world welcomed the vote but called for more urgency from states to advance the process quickly and ensure a strong Treaty with human rights…

  • Turkey/Iran: Act now to protect refugees

    For the second time in one month Turkish law enforcement officials have expelled the same group of Uzbekistani refugees into Iranian territory in flagrant disregard for international standards protecting the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers. Amnesty International is calling on the Turkish authorities to conduct a prompt and impartial investigation into the circumstances of the…

  • Turkey expels refugees for second time

    Turkish law enforcement officials have expelled the same group of Uzbekistani refugees into Iranian territory for the second time in one month. At least twenty-four Uzbekistani nationals are believed to have been rounded up by Turkish police in Van in eastern Turkey on Saturday and taken to an unknown location. Despite the efforts of human…

  • Colombia: Fear for Safety

    Members of the armed forces have threatened inhabitants of the Naya River basin by telling them that paramilitary groups are returning to the area. The paramilitary groups have supposedly been demobilized in a government-sponsored process. The lives of the area’s Afro-descendant communities are in danger.

  • Iraq: World governments misleading and failing Iraqi refugees

    The international community is evading its responsibility towards refugees from Iraq by promoting a false picture of the security situation in Iraq when the country is neither safe nor suitable for return, Amnesty International said today. In its new report, Rhetoric and reality: the Iraqi refugee crisis, which is based on recent research and interviews…