Tag: Amnesty International

A Philippine court has thrown out one of the two remaining drug cases, that was brought against the former Senator, Leila de Lima, who was also an outspoken critic of ...

Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for human rights, has urged the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni to block the anti-LGBTQ bill that prescribes harsh penalties for some homosexual offenses, including ...

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, has criticized President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for failing to mention the aftermath of the killing of a soldier in ...

Amnesty International, today, Tuesday, August 16, 2022 urged Tunisian authorities to immediately drop all charges against Salah Attia, a detained journalist who is on trial before a military court in ...

Rights group, Amnesty International, on Thursday, May 19, 2022, urged football's governing body, FIFA, to pay compensation equaling the total 2022 World Cup prize money for migrant workers "abused" in ...

The UN labour agency, International Labour Organization (ILO), together with Amnesty International have on Thursday, April 7, 2022, called on World Cup host, Qatar to protect thousands of security guards ...

Two death row inmates in Japan are suing the government claiming that the practice of not informing inmates of the time of their execution until only hours before they are ...

Amnesty International has announced that Russia has imprisoned opposition leader, Alexey Navalny in conditions that amount to torture and may slowly be killing him. According to the rights group, Navalny, ...

Amnesty International has reported that the Myanmar military is carrying out "premeditated" attacks on peaceful protesters. These attacks, according to the human rights organisation, include "extrajudicial executions" and indiscriminately spraying ...

Amnesty International has released a report stating that hundreds of unarmed civilians were massacred in less than 48 hours by Eritrean troops in Axum, during the Tigray war in Ethiopia ...