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Damming human rights
An 11,000 megawatt Amazonian hydro project will force 14 Indigenous communities from their homes and destroy natural habitats
Eviction and resistance in Cambodia
Five brave women tell their stories of coming face to face with being forcibly removed from their land and their homes destroyed.
Shell must own up, pay up and clean up
Oil spills have destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of people living in Niger Delta region.
Haiti’s women face new struggles to survive
Women in Haiti are tragically being forced to trade sex for food in order to survive - and help their children survive.
Domestic workers’ rights are not optional
Many of Indonesia’s domestic workers are girls as young as 13 years old, living thousands of kilometres from home and working 18 hours a day, seven days a week.
U2 fights poverty with Amnesty International
In a fantastic show of support, U2 has given Amnesty International a unique platform to promote our Demand Dignity campaign to end the human rights violations that drive and deepen poverty during their 360º world tour.
Left without a choice
Many Indonesian women and girls have little say when it comes to decisions about their sexual and reproductive health.
Thank you for shaming Shell!
We presented 175,000 of your signatures to Shell at their AGM in May. See what you did!
The Millenium Development Goals
In 2000 the UN General Assembly drew up the 'Millenium Declaration' a pledge to end poverty and hunger, ten years on find out how much progress has been made.
Giving life, risking death in Burkina Faso
Every year, more than 2,000 women die in Burkina Faso from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Most of these deaths could have been prevented.
Birth and death in Sierra Leone
Katie Hamann explores the tragic scale of maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, where one in eight women die from treatable complications during pregnancy and childbirth..
Women on the frontline
Women often bear the brunt of poverty and human rights abuses; but as activists they use these roles to trigger positive social change. To mark World Human Rights Day, Amnesty International spoke to three women who put their lives on the line in defence of human rights.
25 years fighting for justice in Bhopal
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster and the people of Bhopal are still struggling to rebuild their lives, campaigning for justice and fighting for adequate compensation.
The day the bulldozers came…
West Bank farmer Mahmoud al-'Alam won't forget the day Israeli army bulldozers cut off his water supply... and destroyed his livelihood.
Palestinians denied fair access to water
While many people in the Occupied Palestinian Territories struggle to get enough water to drink - let alone grow crops - their rainwater harvesting systems are often destroyed by the Israeli military.
The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
In her new book The Unheard Truth, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan reveals why poverty is the worst human rights crisis in the world today.
Justice denied for Cambodia’s Group 78
After three years of government harassment and intimidation, the residents of Group 78 in Cambodia have been forcibly evicted from their homes.
Environment and health laid waste in Nigeria
The 31 million people who live in Nigeria's once pristine coastal wetlands remain desperately poor.
Introducing our new Demand Dignity campaign
Poverty is a violation of human rights. Every person, everywhere, has a basic right to an adequate standard of living. Find out more about our new Demand Dignity campaign.
The latest stats on the development impact of the global crisis
The stats paint the picture: people living in poverty are the worst off in the global financial crisis.
I hope that Australia is bringing diplomatic pressure to bear in the fight against this prehistoric legislation.
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8 February 2012, 11:02PM