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While there is still a great distance to travel, today’s vote is an important step along the road to combatting widespread sexual violence in Switzerland and improving access to justice for survivors.
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Switzerland's amendment to rape law is a historic victory for human rights.
It marks the end to the outdated definition of rape that required the use of physical force, threat or coercion, and considered only women as victims.
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Unlawful surveillance of peaceful protesters in the Netherlands is undermining the right to privacy & having a chilling effect
Today’s new report is part of ’s global “Protect the Protest” campaign which is challenging attacks on peaceful protest
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The Gambian authorities must urgently take all necessary steps to hold them to account and protect the human rights of affected communities including their economic and social rights.
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What is the human cost of overfishing in The Gambia?
Malpractice by certain actors in the fishing industry is harming the environment and undermining people’s livelihoods.
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We stand in solidarity with Uganda's LGBTI community 💛
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We further urge the Security Council to make sure that effective measures are in place for controlling the flow of weapons into South Sudan.
States, businesses, or individuals who violate the arms embargo must be held to account.
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Although this vote is a positive step, we regret that South Sudan will now be allowed to import “non-lethal” equipment without the need to inform and request an exception from the Security Council’s sanctions committee.
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The extension of the UN arms embargo on #SouthSudan is welcome news for millions of civilians who have suffered human rights violations by people with guns, including horrific cases of rape and other sexual violence.
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Protesters in India are demanding the resignation and arrest of the man accused of sexually abusing wrestlers.
#ProtectTheProtest ✊
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Year after year, we continue to document dangerous and reckless use of tear gas.
Iran, Peru and Sri Lanka last year are among many new incidents detailed in our updated interactive website 👇
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🥳 In 2021, along with , we launched a campaign called #WelcometoCanada, and as of now officially half (5) of Canada’s provinces have now committed to stop allowing refugees and migrants to be locked up in their jails!
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👉 Racialized people and people with psychosocial disabilities experience discrimination within Canada’s immigration detention system, and least 18 people have died in immigration detention in Canada since 2000.
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👉 Between April 2019 and March 2020, almost 9,000 people were in immigration detention in Canada, including 138 infants and children. 5,400 were held in 78 provincial jails across Canada, many of which are maximum security facilities.
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Around the world, LGBTI rights are under attack. We want to remind you that love is a human right - everywhere 💛
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As we wait for the Bill to come into force, we urge the international community to put pressure on the Ugandan government to protect the rights of LGBTI people. We stand in solidarity with Ugandan LGBTI communities, and all Ugandans affected by this hateful legislation.
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The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 will do nothing other than enshrine discrimination, hatred and prejudice against LGBTI Ugandans and their allies into law. It’s unconscionable that they risk losing their lives, their privacy and their ability to live free from discrimination.
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President Yoweri Museveni has assented to Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which criminalizes same-sex sexual acts between consenting adults.
This is a desperately dark day for LGBTI rights.
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The arrest of Indian women wrestlers and their supporters by the Delhi police today is another example of the crackdown on peaceful protests in the country and is a violation of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression.
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It has been over a month since the start of the conflict in Sudan 💔
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Living free from violence is a human right.
Living free from violence is a human right.
Living free from violence is a human right.
Living free from violence is a human right.
Living free from violence is a human right.
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Peaceful protest is a human right.
Peaceful protest is a human right.
Peaceful protest is a human right.
Peaceful protest is a human right.
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A protester was removed from Cannes Film Festival after a pouring blood on herself as a reminder of bloodshed in Ukraine.
Since the protest in Cannes sustained Russian strikes have killed more civilians in Ukraine.
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Say it louder for the people in the back 📢
Wearing a hijab should never be forced or banned ✊
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Once calm was restored, victims and survivors decided to press on with the event and make their voices heard. The courageous victims refuse to be silenced and we will continue to support them in their pursuit of justice and an end to state repression.
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At a public presentation of our report #LethalRacism in #Peru last night, a group of at least 20 people disrupted the event where victims and survivors of human rights violations were sharing their stories with the people of Peru and with the world.
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Victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine must have truth, justice and reparations.
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#AI & #ICJ NEW report on the unlawful crackdown on women and girls’ rights with a strong legal analysis on #genderpersecution a grave human rights violation and crime against humanity #Afghanistan
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AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban’s severe restrictions and unlawful crackdown on women & girls’ rights should be investigated as possible crime against humanity of gender persecution, @amnesty and @ICJ_org said today in a new joint report: amnesty.org/en/latest/news27
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Erasing women and girls from public life is a crime against humanity. The Taliban must be held accountable.
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‘The Taliban's war on women: The crime against humanity of gender persecution in Afghanistan’ presents a legal analysis of the Taliban’s Draconian restrictions on the rights of Afghanistan’s women and girls, with the use of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and torture.
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Afghan women and girls are the victims of a crime against humanity of gender persecution. The gravity of the crime demands a far more robust international response than has been seen.
Our joint report with and out now:
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Our report analyses 52 cases of people killed or wounded during protests in Andahuaylas, Chincheros, Ayacucho and Juliaca. Read it here:
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The Peruvian authorities must investigate the possibility that officials ordered or at least tolerated these killings, no matter how high up the chain of command it takes them.
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