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Sun, 20 May 2012 17:13:55 GMT
Police in Kyiv failed to stop ultra-right hooligans from putting LGBT activists at risk and marring the city's first-ever Pride parade.
May 20, 2012
International
The Ukrainian authorities should take action to protect the rights of LGBT people and ensure they are able to exercise their human rights without fear of attacks, Amnesty International said today after the first-ever pride parade had to be cancelled on Sunday.
Police advised pride organizers to abandon the march just 30 minutes before it was due to start. They claimed 500 ultra-right football hooligans were en route to the rally point with the intention of preventing the march from going ahead.
read more Sun, 20 May 2012 17:00:25 +0000
Journalist Salameh Kaileh describes his torture in a Syrian prison and hospital before he was deported to Jordan.
May 17, 2012
A prominent journalist has told Amnesty International how Syrian government forces tortured and detained him in deplorable conditions before deporting him to Jordan on Monday.
Salameh Kaileh, a 57-year-old Jordanian national of Palestinian descent, has lived and worked in the Syrian capital Damascus since 1981.
read more Thu, 17 May 2012 17:00:13 +0000
Independent media in Sudan is facing continous harrassment from the authorities, with arrests of journalists and national newspapers seized.
May 15, 2012
The Sudanese authorities must halt the ongoing harassment of independent media, Amnesty International said after a prominent journalist was re-arrested and copies of a national newspaper seized in Khartoum on Tuesday.
Faisal Mohammed Saleh, a columnist with several national newspapers who has reported in 2011 on the alleged rape of an activist by National Security Service (NSS) agents, is currently being held by the NSS.
read more Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:16 +0000
Brazil's new Truth Commission must bring to light the full extent of violations committed under the country's military rule.
May 11, 2012
Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA, today issued comments in response to President Obama’s statement on marriage equality.
May 9, 2012
AIUSA
Contact: Suzanne Trimel, 212-633-4150, strimel@aiusa.org
(New York) – Suzanne Nossel, executive director, Amnesty International USA, made the following comments today, in response to President Obama’s statement about marriage equality: read more Wed, 09 May 2012 20:23:43 +0000
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:01:37 GMT
Pension funds: key players in the global farmland grab
Large scale agricultural land acquisitions are generating conflicts and controversies around the world. Yet funds continue to flow to overseas
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:00:01 GMT
School children in the US were served 200,000 kilos of meat contaminated with a deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria before the nation's second largest meat packer issued a recall in 2009. A year earl
Thu, 05 May 2011 08:00:01 GMT
âThere can be no justifications for land grabbing!â
social movements and CSOs tell World Bank, UN agencies and governments
17 April 2011
Today, on the International Day of Peasant Struggles, p
Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:00:01 GMT
The Government of the Province of RÃo Negro, Argentina, and one of China's largest agribusiness companies are moving forward on an agreement that hands over thousands of hectares of land in Argentina
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:00:01 GMT
GRAIN is pleased to announce that, starting today, the specialised farmlandgrab.org website is fully trilingual. People who speak French or Spanish can now navigate the site in either language and be
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:00:01 GMT
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