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Rallies are being held in Toronto and Ottawa today demanding that Omar Khadr be returned home.

'Both the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as international forces operating in Afghanistan have a legal obligation to provide safe passage, consistent security and humanitarian assistance to the ...

A psychologist in a Congo hospital says decades of war have produced a rape-friendly culture with a double standard.

ATTORNEY Israel Khan, SC, has defended the Police Service in the wake of the latest Amnesty International report on the country, which was heavily critical of the conduct of police officers.

Cheenath compared the violence to the slaughter of over 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat in 2002.

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A report from Amnesty International claims as many as half of child soldiers returned to their families may have been reenlisted, despite a peace agreement.

The Irish branch of Amnesty International is writing to the two US presidential candidates asking them to allow the Irish authorities to search US military planes at Irish airports.

For every two children released, five are taken and forced to be child soldiers, said Amnesty International, in a new report released today on the ongoing conflict in the province of North Kivu, eastern ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 AIUSA-Georgia-Russia Human Rights Organization Calls for Civilian Protection as EU Monitors to Oversee Russian Withdrawal WASHINGTON , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As European Union monitors ...

AI Index: ASA 13/003/2008/26 September 2008/UA 276/08 Medical concern/Torture/Legal concern BANGLADESH Rang Lai Mro , indigenous community leader Indigenous community leader Rang Lai Mro, who is serving a jail ...

The Military Police Complaints Commission will expand its hearings into allegations by Amnesty International and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Union that the Canadians handed detainees over to torture by ...

Child soldiers, mass rape, starvation and 5.4 million dead in a decade. But we hear little about the conflict in eastern Congo All comments Tim Hancock guardian.co.uk , It is often referred to as one of the ...

Almost half of students in Northern Ireland believe women who flirt have only themselves to blame if they get raped, according to a survey.

Armed groups are still recruiting child soldiers to fight in the ongoing conflict in the province of North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo .

Brussels, Sep 28, : Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the European Union to raise the issue of human rights in India at the EU-India summit that will take place in the French city of ...

Tens of thousands have already been forcibly evicted in recent years, many left homeless, others relocated to inadequate resettlement sites with poor infrastructure, lacking basic amenities including ...

A hidden war continues to blight the lives of women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Several people were attacked at the end of the first day of the Sarajevo Queer Festival on Wednesday.

Ma Thida spoke about her experience in Burma Thursday in the Joukowsky Forum. Thursday night, visiting writer Ma Thida called her imprisonment under the oppressive regime in her homeland of Burma, now known as ...