Tag: Amnesty International
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Three rockets hit US embassy in Baghdad as anti-government protests spike in Iraq
None of the attacks have been claimed but Washington has repeatedly blamed Iran-backed military factions in Iraq.
January 27, 2020 -
Russia passes law to label journalists as foreign agents in another move to curb freedom of press
Russia first passed legislation allowing media organisations to be slapped with the label in 2017, after Kremlin-funded RT television was declared a foreign agent in the United States.
December 3, 2019 -
CBI raids Bengaluru office of Amnesty International over alleged violation of FCRA
'Over the past year, a pattern of harassment has emerged every time Amnesty India stands up and speaks out against human rights violations in India,' said Amnesty in a statement.
November 15, 2019 -
ED issues notice to human rights organisation Amnesty International
Amnesty India's offices in Bengaluru were also raided by the ED last year in October over an alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
September 6, 2019 -
Amnesty says 37 protesters killed in Sudan crackdown
Anti-government protests have rattled Sudan since Wednesday after the government tripled the price of a loaf of bread.
December 25, 2018 -
Accepting refugees makes sense
Recently, acknowledging the scale of global displacement, the majority of UN member states adopted a global compact for migration. The pact aims to improve global governance on migration-related issues, including promoting legal migration, providing basic services, better integrating new arrivals, tackling human trafficking and coordinating how to send migrants home.
December 18, 2018 -
Tryst with Democracy~II
To ensure a viable democracy, the emphasis should be on a discussion of its essentials, and strengthening of institutions that support democracy, not the party in power. The federated system also places checks and balances on the various levels of government, thereby guarding against an overconcentration of power at the national level. But if the party at the Centre has a brute majority, the federal system becomes a victim.
December 7, 2018 -
Is Syria the key to Khashoggi’s death?
We are all, alas, making the same old Middle East mistake: of thinking that the bad guys will get overthrown or punished for their murders and transgressions and that the good guys (whoever they may be) will come out on top.
December 3, 2018 -
Another award less
It is yet another subtraction from the garland of accolades that were once reserved for the “lodestar of democracy”. That embroidery has frayed over time, to say the least. Amnesty International has eventually sized up Aung San Suu Kyi with Monday’s assertion that Myanmar’s civilian leader “is no longer a symbol of hope”. Hopeless too …
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November 14, 2018 -
‘No longer a symbol of hope’: Amnesty strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour
It was the latest in a string of awards the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner lost since Myanmar's military drove 720,000 Rohingya out of the Buddhist majority country in what the United Nations has called an act of genocide.
November 13, 2018 -
Executions don’t eradicate crime against women: Amnesty on SC order in Nirbhaya case
The human rights body said the government must allocate adequate resources for effective implementation of laws and ensure certainty of justice in all cases
July 9, 2018 -
Rohingya terrorist group ARSA massacred 99 Hindus in Myanmar: Amnesty
ARSA terrorists spared eight Hindu women and eight of their children on the condition that the women “convert” to Islam and marry some of the insurgents.
May 23, 2018 -
India gave 109 death sentences but executed none in 2017: Amnesty
Last year, 51 death penalties were imposed for murder alone, down from 87 in 2016, the London-based organisation said quoting the National Law University's Centre on Death Penalty.
April 13, 2018 -
Myanmar imposing apartheid system on Rohingyas: Amnesty
Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Myanmar of imposing a system of apartheid on the Rohingya Muslim minority, saying that an institutionalised system of discrimination constitutes a crime against humanity. The human rights group released a report after a two-year investigation of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, reports Efe news. Amnesty said the Rohingya …
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November 21, 2017 -
Myanmar Army again deny abuses against Rohingya
The Myanmar Army on Tuesday again denied having committed any abuses against the Rohingya Muslim minority, including murders and rapes, during its operations in Rakhine State. The latest military operations began late August in response to a series of assaults by a group of Rohingya insurgents on police posts, causing more than 614,000 people, most …
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November 14, 2017 -
Clouds gather over the Sharifs
Mossack Fonseca is a Panamanian law firm that helps clients hide their wealth using offshore bank accounts and shell companies. Eleven million documents have been leaked from this law firm. Among the named clients were Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family members. As owners of a range of companies from steel to sugar mills, the …
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July 19, 2017 -
Talk turkey
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strengthened his fort with the indefinite extension of the emergency. In effect, a theoretically democratic Turkey, westernised a century ago by Kemal Ataturk, now faces the thoroughly undemocratic prospect of what they call “rule by decree”. The emergency, it would be pertinent to recall, was introduced as a “temporary measure” …
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May 27, 2017