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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: Nairobi authorities must provide alternative housing to forcibly evicted residents

9 May 2018 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Iran: New evidence reveals deliberate desecration and destruction of multiple mass gravesites

30 April 2018 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Americas: Activists in Peru and Paraguay criminalized for defending the environment

26 April 2018 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Swaziland: Housing demolitions leave dozens homeless

10 April 2018 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Mozambique: Irresponsible Chinese mining operation threatens to wipe out coastal village

27 March 2018 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Zimbabwe: Post-Mugabe government must open new chapter of respect for rights

21 November 2017 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

The Human Cost of a Megacity: Forced Evictions of the Urban Poor In Lagos, Nigeria

14 November 2017 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Reports Israeli government plans to retaliate against Amnesty International over settlements campaign

12 September 2017 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

The cost of "development": "The government sees Nicaragua as their estate and us as their animals"

4 September 2017 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

Sierra Leone: Housing and environmental failures behind shocking scale of mudslide deaths

17 August 2017 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country News

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