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Human Rights and Poverty
Government of Sierra Leone launches free maternal healthcare
28 April 2010, 10:01AM
International non-governmental organisations have welcomed the official launch of Sierra Leone’s free care policy for pregnant and lactating women, and for children under the age of 5.
50,000 people about to be evicted in Kenya
16 April 2010, 10:27AM
50,000 people living along side Kenya's railway have been given 30 days to leave their homes. They will not receive any compensation or resettlement help even though many of these people had lived there for years, and will lose their homes, livelihoods, possessions and social networks.
India: Authorities must halt unnecessary and excessive use of police force and civil militia attack
6 April 2010, 10:08AM
Protesters from indigenous communities in Orissa have faced brutality at the hands of authorities.
Malaysia: End abuse of migrant workers
24 March 2010, 02:23PM
Amnesty International has uncovered widespread workplace and police abuses of the migrant workers in Malaysia.
Authorities must act on findings of probe into Vedanta’s projects in Orissa
17 March 2010, 11:23AM
Indian authorities must act on vital findings of an official team into abuses of human rights and violations of forest laws by Vedanta Resources’ companies in their bauxite mining and alumina refinery projects in Orissa.
USA urged to confront shocking maternal mortality rate
13 March 2010, 11:02AM
Amnesty International is calling for action to stop between two and three women dying every day during pregnancy and childbirth in the USA.
Government misses opportunity to re-establish rights protection in the Northern Territory
12 March 2010, 03:08PM
Senate Committee recommendation will perpetuate discrimination and disempowerment amongst large numbers of Indigenous peoples.
Bangladesh: Investigate army’s alleged involvement in human rights abuses in Chittagong Hill Tracts
27 February 2010, 11:53AM
At least two men have died after the army fired into a crowd of Jumma Indigenous people who were peacefully protesting attacks from Bengalee settlers against their homes.
Amnesty International welcomes UN expert’s views on Northern Territory intervention
26 February 2010, 12:32PM
Australian Government should “fully purge” NTER of its racially discriminatory character, says UN Special Rapporteur
President of Burkina Faso commits to lifting barriers to maternal health
13 February 2010, 09:08AM
The President of Burkina Faso has committed to lifting all financial barriers to emergency obstetric care and access to family planning, as part of a strategy to fight maternal mortality in the country.
Vedanta Resources’ statement on report full of errors and omissions
10 February 2010, 04:12PM
The statement from Vedanta Resources, which was distributed by a marketing agency in Delhi on 9 February, does not address any of the substantive concerns raised by Amnesty International in its report.
Bauxite mine and refinery devastate lives in India
9 February 2010, 03:03PM
Indian authorities have given local communities scant or misleading information about the potential impact of a proposed alumina refinery expansion and mining project to be operated by subsidiaries of UK-based company Vedanta Resources in Orissa, Amnesty International said in a new report.
Impartial police investigation needed in PNG
5 February 2010, 07:41AM
We call for any investigation into forced evictions in Porgera, PNG, to be impartial, following comments by PNG's Police Commissioner that he may launch an investigation with the predetermined objective of clearing the police of misconduct.
Investigate police violence, illegal evictions near PNG gold mine
3 February 2010, 10:21AM
The government of Papua New Guinea must investigate the conduct of police who burnt down homes and threatened people with guns, while illegally evicting them from land next to one of the biggest gold mines in the country.
Proposed new laws make few changes to failed intervention
2 February 2010, 01:15PM
Amnesty International has labeled the Australian Government’s claim that proposed new laws will reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory as misleading and has found evidence required to assess the success of the Emergency Response to be woefully inadequate.
Women in Burkina Faso dying because of discrimination
27 January 2010, 11:28AM
Women are dying needlessly during pregnancy and childbirth because discrimination prevents them from accessing sexual and reproductive health services, leaving them unable to make key decisions on their pregnancies.
Israel’s Gaza blockade continues to suffocate daily life
18 January 2010, 12:02PM
Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.
World Human Rights Day
10 December 2009, 04:41PM
The Dalai Lama and 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year Professor Larissa Behrendt took to the stage this morning, to mark World Human Rights Day.
Investigations needed into killings in Orissa
4 December 2009, 11:30AM
Amnesty International is calling on authorities in Orissa to conduct a credible and impartial investigation, following the killings of two adivasi leaders by police and paramilitary personnel in Narayanpatna.
Climate change deal must not further disadvantage those in poverty
1 December 2009, 03:51PM
Political leaders meeting in Copenhagen next week must reach a fair, ambitious and binding deal on climate change that does not leave out and further disadvantage the world’s poor, said Mary Robinson and Irene Khan.
A policeman's job is to protect all citizens, even those he or she doesn't like. I'd have thought that a pretty basic concept.
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