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Accountability Knows No Boundaries
Continuing their practice of covering stories likely to be spiked by the American mainstream media, Al Jazeera has just released a report based on the following statement released by Amnesty International: Amnesty International recognises the value...
Syrian Government Accused of Turning Hospitals Into Instruments of Repression
The Syrian government has turned hospitals into instruments of repression in its efforts to crush opposition, according to a new report by the London-based human rights group Amnesty International. Amnesty says wounded patients in at least four government-run...
Amnesty International Urges Zimbabwe to Provide Education for Displaced Children
The human rights group, Amnesty International (AI), has called on the Zimbabwean government to ensure that children living in the settlements it created to re-house those made homeless by its controversial 2005 mass forced eviction program, codenamed...
Amnesty International Calls for Release of Prisoners of Conscience From Eritrean Jails
The Eritrean authorities must unconditionally release 11 prominent politicians, including three former cabinet ministers, who have been held incommunicado without charge for ten years, Amnesty International said in a report released on Friday.
UNHCR Says 30,000 Libyans Fled to Tunisia
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has revealed that approximately 30,000 persons had escaped to Tunisia through the Libyan western border as a result of the conflict between forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and rebels pressing for...
Amnesty International Welcomes Release of Detained Ethiopian Opposition Leader
The London-based human rights organization, Amnesty International (AI), has welcomed the release of opposition leader and prisoner of conscience, Birtukan Mideksa, by the Ethiopian government, AI officials told APA on Wednesday.
ZIMBABWE: Murambatsvina Victims Still Homeless
In the winter of 2005 the government uprooted some 700,000 Zimbabweans across the country in Operation Murambatsvina, officially described as a “slum clearance program”, but promises to re-house those who lost their homes and livelihoods five...
Amnesty International Urges Zimbabwe to Protect Victims From Urban Clean-up Campaign
Zimbabwe’s government must take action to protect more than 700,000 people who lost their homes five years ago following a program of mass forced evictions, Amnesty International Zimbabwe and a coalition of non-governmental organizations said Tuesday. In...
