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Amnesty International urges EU to follow Biden’s UAE, Saudi weapons freeze
Jan 29, 2021 12:41Amnesty International has welcomed the United States decision to freeze arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), calling on European countries to follow suit and end weapons exports to the two countries involved in the devastating war on Yemen.
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Rich countries have bought too many COVID-19 vaccines: Amnesty
Dec 10, 2020 05:55Rich countries have secured enough coronavirus vaccines to protect their populations nearly three times over by the end of 2021, Amnesty International and other groups said on Wednesday, possibly depriving billions of people in poorer areas.
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Amnesty, UN, EU warn Ethiopia's warring sides: Do not target civilians
Nov 25, 2020 09:46Amnesty International, the UN envoy for human rights and the European Union's top diplomat have called on the warring sides in Ethiopia's volatile Tigray region to avoid targeting civilians and violating human rights.
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Amnesty says halting work in India due to govt. crackdown
Sep 29, 2020 11:26Amnesty International has halted work in India, alleging the New Delhi government has been cracking down on the human rights group for reporting rights violations.
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Amnesty International condemns US police brutality
Aug 04, 2020 14:23Amnesty International has condemned the excessive use of force by US police in its recent crackdown on demonstrators protesting against racial discrimination and police brutality in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd.
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Amnesty slams ‘barbaric’ caning sentences given to Rohingya Muslims by Malaysia
Jul 21, 2020 17:42Amnesty International has called on Malaysia to withdraw the caning sentences recently handed down to a group of persecuted Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, saying the “barbaric” practice “amounts to torture.”
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Amnesty says abuses rampant as West African armies target militants
Jun 10, 2020 11:46Soldiers in three West African countries unlawfully killed or caused the disappearance of at least 199 people between February and April during stepped-up operations against insurgents, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
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Amnesty International urges King Salman to free detained Saudi women’s activists
May 15, 2020 09:00Amnesty International has called on King Salman bin Abdulaziz Ale Saud of Saudi Arabia to order the freedom of a group of women's rights activists, who were detained two years ago in a wide scale crackdown across the kingdom, describing their ongoing plight as “heartbreaking.”
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NGOs boycott pre-G20 meetings in Saudi Arabia over rights violations
Jan 14, 2020 12:58Three prominent international NGOs have boycotted meetings that Saudi Arabia is holding with civil society groups ahead of the annual Group of Twenty (G20) Summit, saying the Riyadh regime is trying to “whitewash its dire human rights record” by hosting such events.
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Amnesty International calls on Riyadh regime to release Saudi woman’s rights activist
Jan 12, 2020 07:29Amnesty International has urged Saudi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release jailed prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, whose arrest more than four years ago marked the start of a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against women activists in the ultra-conservative kingdom.