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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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Kenya: Establish Commission of Inquiry into violations by security agencies

10 December 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn and others must resist China's Orwellian vision of the internet

16 November 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Central America turns its back on hundreds of thousands fleeing 'war-like' violence

14 October 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Turkey's many shades of fear

15 August 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Iran: Women's rights activists treated as 'enemies of the state' in renewed crackdown

10 August 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

India: End of Irom Sharmila's hunger strike an opportunity to repeal AFSPA

9 August 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Malaysia: National Security Council Act gives authorities unchecked and abusive powers

1 August 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

China: Scrap Foreign NGO law aimed at choking civil society

28 April 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Fast-track to Torture: Abductions and Forcible Returns from Russia to Uzbekistan

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

Sudan: Government must investigate brutal killing of 18-year-old university student by intelligence agents

20 April 2016 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

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