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Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Its mission is to undertake research and action focussed on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights. Amnesty International has more than a million members and supporters in over 140 countries and territories. It is impartial and independent of any government, political persuasion or religious creed. It is financed largely by subscriptions and donations from its worldwide membership.  Website: www.amnesty.org
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El Salvador: Scandalous proposal to increase jail terms for women accused of abortion

12 July 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Burkina Faso: Submission To The United Nations Human Rights Committee

June 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Sessional Reports

Coerced and Denied: Forced Marriages and Barriers to Contraception in Burkina Faso

26 April 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country Reports

Amnesty International Report 2015/16 - Slovakia

24 February 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Annual Reports

Tunisia: Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Sessional Reports

Dominican Republic takes women's rights back to 1884

3 December 2015 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Abortion is not a crime, doctors warn governments

20 November 2015 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Chile: Urgent progress needed on right to choose after young woman arrested for a clandestine abortion

12 November 2015 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Chile: Extreme anti-abortion law creates climate of fear and substandard health care for women

28 September 2015 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Draconian abortion laws kill women and girls

18 August 2015 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

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