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A year on from the Gambia’s return to executions 23 Aug 2013 | 10:19 pm
By Lisa Sherman-Nikolaus, West Africa researcher at Amnesty International *This blog has been adapted from a speech given at an event on 23 August 2013 with 12 other organizations in Dakar, Senegal to...
‘No more Beatrizes’: Making history in Montevideo 23 Aug 2013 | 04:32 pm
By Amnesty’s delegation in Montevideo, Uruguay “We’re still celebrating,” activists said about the historic agreement made in the Uruguayan capital last week, at the First Regional Conference on Popul...
No more hand-wringing on Syria 22 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
By Cilina Nasser, Amnesty International’s researcher on Syria This originally appeared as an op-ed on MSN UK. It is impossible to watch the videos that emanated from Syria yesterday and not be moved, ...
A week of violence and curfew 21 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Egypt researcher Tension is palpable in Cairo’s eerily empty streets. The night-time curfew imposed last Wednesday following the violent dispersals of pro-Mo...
The lives of others – the USA must do more than ‘tighten the bolts’ on surveillance 15 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
By Michael Bochenek, Director of Law and Policy at Amnesty International US President Obama offered a tepid response on government surveillance at last Friday’s news conference in Washington. Yes, he ...
“They killed my son” 15 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Dr Manoharan recalls the day when his son was gunned down by Sri Lanka’s security forces The last time I heard from my son, Ragihar, was a mobile phone text message. It just said: “DAD”. That was 2 Ja...
Profiting from misery in Katanga 14 Aug 2013 | 10:56 pm
By Audrey Gaughran, Director of Global Issues at Amnesty International I have just left Katanga in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where my colleague Lisa Tassi and I were following up...
Khan al-Ahmar: The human rights impact of Israel’s settlement expansion 13 Aug 2013 | 09:31 pm
By Deborah Hyams, Israel/OPT/PA researcher at Amnesty International For more than 60 years, the Jahalin Bedouin tribe has been struggling to maintain their way of life. Forced from their tribal lands ...
Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples’ long, painful wait to go home 9 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
By Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s General Secretary from Brazil. The Indigenous Peoples of Brazil have been waiting a quarter of a century to get their land back. That was when Brazil’s federal...
Special tour of the pro-Morsi sit-in after torture allegations 9 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm
By Mohamed Lotfy, Amnesty International researcher on Egypt Last week, Amnesty International researchers gathered testimonies alleging that supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi had tortured m...
