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North Korea on Wednesday rejected calls by members of the UN Human Rights Council to grant access to a UN independent expert to assess the human rights situation in the country, a report said.
The group said in a report that the human rights violations that it said occurred after protests following elections in June should be “fully and independently investigated.”
Human rights violations in Iran are as poor as at any time in the past 20 years, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.
Human rights violations in Iran are as bad as at any time in 20 years, London-based watchdog Amnesty International said on Thursday in a report on a government crackdown against election protests.
Amnesty International on Wednesday called for Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar, who is on a three-week-old hunger strike at a Spanish airport, to be allowed to go home.
Three women brought their case against Ireland's strict abortion law to the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday, saying the Catholic country's legislation violates their rights.
Two leading international human rights groups gave U.S. President Barack Obama mixed reviews on his human rights record on Wednesday, a day before he is slated to accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
Police in Nigeria carry out hundreds of extra-judicial killings every year and only those who can afford to pay bribes can guarantee their safety from execution or torture, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
A new Amnesty International report offers the most detailed account of Iranian abuse – and official coversups – during postelection protests.
Amnesty International's new report details the abuse before, during and after the June election, when the authorities deployed the Basij militia and Revolutionary Guards to suppress mass protests against its disputed outcome.
Police in Nigeria are getting away with shocking levels of brutality and unlawful killings of civilians, largely because the law allows them to shoot suspects at will, which officers abuse to justify, commit and cover-up murder, Amnesty International said in a new report issued today.
Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA executive director, issued the following statement on the eve of President Barack Obama's acceptance of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
Amnesty International urges the Italian government to ensure that two recently released Guantánamo Bay detainees are lawfully detained and receive fair trials in Italy. The organization emphasizes that they must not be sent back to Tunisia where they would be at risk of torture
Nigeria: Amnesty International says police "kill at will"
Blog written for Amnesty International by Shaimaa, the wife of human rights defender Musaad Suliman Hassan Hussei.
Amnesty International has exposed the shocking level of unlawful police killings in Nigeria in a new report.
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