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This document contains suggested recommendations to be made during the interactive dialogue in the UPR Working Group with Bahamas, Barbados, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Colombia, Israel, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.

In this submission, Amnesty International provides information under sections B, C and D, as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information under the Universal Periodic Review. Amnesty International raises concern over the death penalty. The organisation also describes...

1) Rise in recruitment of child soldiers in DRC 2) Humanitarian crisis in Occupied Territories 3) Rural communities in Guatemala violently evicted 4) Racist attacks rife in the Russian Federation 5) Police killings go unpunished 6) Worldwide appeals: Uzbekistan: Jailed for speaking out; Thailand:...

1.) Mass commutation in Philippines; 2.) 20,000 Prisoners around world in Death Row; 3.) Members elected to new UN Human Rights Council; 4.) Privy Council abolishes mandatory death sentence in Bahamas; 5.) Unlawful executions in tribal areas of Pakistan; 6.) Iran executes yet another child...

1) Forced evictions shatter lives in Zimbabwe 2) Civilians live in fear in southern Thailand 3) Sufi Muslim protesters attacked in Iran 4) Albanian police official admits ‘women do not get access to justice’: Albanian authorities, including police officers and prosecutors, fail to protect women...

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In this open letter, Amnesty International writes in response to the report “Communication to the Honourable House of Assembly On the Investigation of Allegations of Abuse and Inhumane Conditions at the Detention Centre at Carmichael Rd”. In the light of this report’s findings, and other...

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On 18 December 2002, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a new mechanism: the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Protocol). This report provides guidelines on how to ensure that NPMs are set up with the...

This submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is in response to the Committee’s thematic discussion on non-citizens and racial discrimination. It presents a number of case studies which reveal that non-citizens are often subject to human rights abuses by state...

1) Executions in Uzbekistan 2) Viet Nam restricts Internet freedom 3) Rape committed with impunity in Burundi 4) The ‘forgotten detainees’ of the Bahamas 5) Human rights defenders in the Americas under attack 6) Worldwide Appeals. USA: Death sentence after misconduct by the prosecution; Indonesia:...