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Researchers find Israeli-made spyware deployed across Armenia
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group is seen at one of its branches in the Arava Desert, southern Israel July 22, 2021. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
opinion
Turkey’s reconstruction will depend on rebuilding its democracy
Daron Acemoglu and Cihat Tokgoz
opinion
In Turkey’s devastating earthquake, it’s the poor paying the price again
Adnan R. Khan
world
Former government minister, writer among prisoners granted amnesty to mark Myanmar’s independence day
Htin Lin Oo, center, a writer and former information officer of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, stands with his colleagues after he was released from Insein Prison, in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo)
soccer
Amnesty accuses Canada Soccer of ‘deafening silence’ and ‘failure of leadership’ ahead of Qatar World Cup
Ketty Nivyabandi, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, speaks as she joins the the Black Class Action Secretariat as they hold a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
opinion
Amnesty International must renew its solidarity with the oppressed in Ukraine
H.A. Hellyer
world
Head of Amnesty’s Ukraine office quits after group accuses Kyiv of endangering civilians
The logo of NGO Amnesty International is projected onto the Palais Bourbon, the seat of the French national assembly, late on June 18, 2018. The NGO projected "reasons" in favour of the reception of migrants, ahead of a debate in the French senate on June 19 on a controversial draft law on asylum and immigration. / AFP PHOTO / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELTGEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images
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Evidence shows Russian troops committed war crimes near Kyiv, Amnesty International says
This photograph shows a destroyed tank in front of destroyed Ukrainian Antonov An-225 "Mriya" cargo aircraft amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at airport of town of Hostomel, in Kyiv region, on May 5, 2022. - The Antonov An-225 Mriya -- a cargo-lift plane with an 88 metre (290 feet) wingspan that is the largest of any aircraft in operational service -- has been mauled by blasts. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ethiopia grants amnesty to prominent political detainees
FILE - Oromos protest against the government and call for the release of prominent opposition figure Jawar Mohammed and others, seen on placards, during the annual Irreecha festival in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Oct. 2, 2021. Ethiopia's government on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022 announced an amnesty for some of the country's most high-profile political detainees, including opposition figure Jawar Mohammed and senior Tigray party officials, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke of reconciliation for Orthodox Christmas. Placard in Oromo reads: "Right. Arrested for Oromo truth". (AP Photo, File)
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Western countries express concern over alleged Afghan killings as Taliban reject accusations
FILE PHOTO: A group of women wearing burqas crosses the street as members of the Taliban drive past in Kabul, Afghanistan October 9, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo
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Kuwaiti government reportedly resigns in move that could help end political standoff
FILE PHOTO: Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah speaks during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool/File Photo
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Syrian refugees suffered abuse, torture upon return home, says Amnesty International report
FILE - In this June 28, 2018 file photo, Syrian refugees in a pickup truck get ready to cross into Syria from the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon. A number of Syrian refugees who returned home have been subjected to detention, disappearance and torture at the hands of Syrian security forces, proving that it still isn't safe to return to any part of the country, Amnesty International said in a new report released Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. It documents what it said were violations committed by Syrian intelligence officers against some returnees, including 13 children between mid-2017 and spring 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
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Amnesty International reports widespread rapes ‘with impunity’ in Ethiopian Tigray conflict
FILE - In this March 20, 2021 file photo, a Tigrayan refugee rape victim who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray sits for a portrait in eastern Sudan near the Sudan-Ethiopia border. A new Amnesty International report published Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021 says dozens of women have described shocking sexual assaults by Ethiopian soldiers and allied forces in the country's Tigray conflict, and its researcher calls it striking how the perpetrators appeared to act without fear of punishment from their commanders. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
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Hundreds massacred by Eritrean troops in Ethiopian town, Amnesty says
Internally Displaced People (IDP), fleeing from violence in the Metekel zone in Western Ethiopia, walk on a route as others stand next to huts in a camp in Chagni, Ethiopia, on January 28, 2021. - Inter-ethnic violence in Ethiopia's west -- concentrated in a lowland area known as Metekel -- predates a brutal three-month-old conflict farther north pitting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government against the former ruling party of the Tigray region. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
The silence of Canadian authorities regarding the death of Karima Mehrab is deafening
Margaret Jenkins
world
Tunisian police arrest about 1,000 people after several nights of protests
Protesters stand amidst fumes as they block a street during clashes with security forces on outskirts of Tunis, Tunisia, on Jan. 17, 2021.
world
Vaccine ‘hoarding’ by wealthy countries triggers growing worries in poorer countries
A woman wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19 infection passes a community clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Africa�s top public health official says vaccinations against COVID-19 on the continent might not start until the second quarter of next year. And he says it will be �extremely dangerous� if more developed parts of the world vaccinate themselves and then restrict travel to people with proof of vaccination. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)
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War in Ethiopia leaves a nation in trauma as atrocities, bomb attacks are reported
Alemitu Alemu Gobena, a 68-year-old woman in Addis Ababa, worries about her son, a soldier in Ethiopia's army, who is stationed in the war-torn Tigray region. "There has been no phone, no communication, and it has been a slow death for me," she says. "I had assumed war was a thing of the past."
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From outlier to champion: Canada’s uneven record on human rights
HUMAN RIGHTS A 40 foot mural was created by more than a dozen members of the Earl Haig Secondary School Amnesty International Club, to celebrate World Human Rights Day which is on Sunday, Dec. 10.
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Nigerian president’s office says ‘many lives have been lost’ in days of unrest
Military personnel drive along a street in Lagos, Nigeria, on Oct. 23, 2020.
world
Nigerian protesters defy curfew amid gunfire, chaos in Lagos
A police officer stands guard on a street in Lagos, Nigeria, on Oct. 21, 2020.
world
Video showing death of woman by men in military uniforms shocks Mozambique
A frame grab from video showing Mozambican soldiers shooting a naked woman on the side of the road. Amnesty International has just released its verification of the video, confirming the location, and the Mozambican government has expressed its own concerns about the killing.
world
UN peacekeepers return to provide protection for threatened Nobel-winning Congolese doctor
In this Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege speaks during a news conference in Oslo, Norway.
politics
Canada is failing to prosecute alleged war criminals, report says
Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, holds up some of the 31,000 letters as they call on Saudi Arabia to free Raif Badawi as protesters take part in a rally outside the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Ottawa on Monday, November 2, 2015. A prominent human rights organization says Canada is failing to bring suspected war criminals to justice. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Telephone surveillance software used to spy on journalist-activist in Morocco, Amnesty International says
Journalist and activist Omar Radi waits outside court in Casablanca, Morocco, on March 12, 2020.
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Deadly Rio police raid brings crowds into streets of quarantined favela
Deadly Rio police raid brings crowds into streets of quarantined favela
politics
Hong Kong protesters seek refuge in Canada
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 5, 2019 police chase down a couple wearing facemasks in the central district in Hong Kong, a day after the city's leader outlawed face coverings at protests invoking colonial-era emergency powers not used for half a century. - AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri won first prize, in the General News-stories category in the World Press Photo (WPP) contest on April 16, 2020. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP) (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Weeks after Thai soldier kills 29, Amnesty report describes widespread abuse faced by military conscripts
Soldiers are seen outside the Terminal 21 shopping mall where a mass shooting took place, in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, in a Feb. 10, 2020, file photo.
alberta
Amnesty International raises Greta sticker issue in letter to Trudeau, premiers
Amnesty International says a sexually suggestive image of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg that spurred outrage last month raises wider human rights concerns. Thunberg is shown attending a rally at the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, on Oct. 18, 2019.
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Amnesty International urges Sudan’s transitional government to deliver on protesters’ demands
Sudanese civilians march during the first anniversary of the start of the uprising that toppled long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir, in Khartoum, Sudan, on Dec. 19, 2019.
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Syria’s President issues amnesty reducing punishment for crimes
A man walks past a banner depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Douma, outside Damascus, Syria, on Sept. 17, 2018.
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‘Unlawful’ attacks committed against civilians during fighting in Tripoli, Amnesty International says
A hole made by an exploded missile is seen near a damaged vehicle in Abu Salim district, in Tripoli, Libya, on April 17, 2019.