On 6 September 2008, over 100 residents of Ezbet Bekhit informal settlement were killed by a rockslide. One year on, the difficulties of finding affordable housing ...
Amnesty International has condemned the use of apparently toxicpesticides to intimidate an indigenous community after they resistedbeing forcibly evicted from their ...
Victims of the 2006 toxic waste dumping scandal in Côte d’Ivoire toldAmnesty International on Monday that a ruling protecting theircompensation was a "small ...
Five Indigenous communities in Itakyry district, eastern Paraguay, are no longer facing imminent forced eviction from their ancestral lands. However, the Brazilian ...
The home of 48-year-old Gertrude Hambira, a prominent female trade union activist in Zimbabwe, was attacked by three armed men on 3 November. Gertrude Hambira is ...
Government representatives meeting in Addis Ababa have been urged by Amnesty International to clearly state they would prevent anyofficials accused of genocide, ...
Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, was released on bail on 1 November after four months detained without trial in Iran's capital, Tehran. She had been on hunger ...
Staff at a shelter for undocumented migrants in north-eastern Mexico have received repeated threats. The migrants staying at the shelter and the staff working there ...
This briefing on the Kunduz airstrike, which occurred in the early hours of 5 September 2009, is based on Amnesty International’s field research in Kunduz. It provides ...
