The humanitarian crisis in the Wanni region of north Sri Lanka is worsening as tens of thousands of families endure the monsoon season with limited food, shelter, water or sanitation.
Ninety-two children are among a group of 158 Lao Hmong refugees who
have been held under harsh conditions at a detention centre in Thailand for two years.
Authorities try to paint a positive picture despite increasing reports of forced internal displacement, attacks
against social and human rights activists and killings by security
forces.
Child soldiers are still being recruited to fight in the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is also continuing physical and sexual abuse of women and children in the conflict.
Rape is widespread throughout Burundi, though many cases, remain unprosecuted. Women are often too afraid to even report the crime out of fear that their families and communities will reject them. Demand justice in the case of 13 year-old Kaneza.
Reacting to the release of a video publicly showing Canadian
citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the US detention center in
Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International called for Khadr to be
repatriated to Canada immediately.
Reacting to today’s release of a video publicly showing Canadian citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International called for Khadr to be repatriated to Canada immediately.
Mohammed Jawad and Omar Khadr were under 18 at the time of their detention by the US military in Afghanistan. Their pre-trial hearings resumed this week.
Ethiopian forces and forces of the Transitional Federal Government of
Somalia (TFG) have been accused of targeting civilians in an attack on
a Mogadishu mosque that left 21 dead.
