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  • Bangladesh
  • Refugees

‘Your brother has been killed,’ the Myanmar soldier said. ‘You can come out of hiding and take him.’

As you approach the fishing village of Shamlapur, near the long, sloping sand beach of Cox’s Bazar, the sense that something is wrong grows. Tens of thousands of exhausted people step out of ramshackle boats that have carried them across the Naf River after an arduous journey from Myanmar. Weary and traumatized, they seek shelter anywhere they can — in one school I entered, hundreds, about half of them children, had gathered in silence.

Date:
13 September 2017
  • Research
  • Arms Trade

Joint Statement - The development of international standards on the export and subsequent use of armed or strike-enabled UAVs

The use of ‘Unmanned’ Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to conduct airstrikes has caused harm in communities, including significant casualties; raised serious legal and ethical concerns; and endangered international peace, security and human rights and rule of law by lowering political, practical, and technological impediments to the use of force. States must be aware that the specific features of these technologies risk facilitating a global expansion of the use of lethal force.

Date:
13 September 2017
Ref:
ACT 30/7093/2017
  • News
  • Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
  • Armed Conflict

Reports Israeli government plans to retaliate against Amnesty International over settlements campaign

Responding to reports circulating in Israeli media today suggesting that the Israeli Finance Ministry is planning to take action against the organization and its donors under Israel’s controversial 2011 anti-boycott law, over its campaign calling on governments to ban imports of Israeli settlement products, Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International said:  “The reports that the Israeli government plans to punish Amnesty International over its settlements campaign are deeply alarming.

Date:
12 September 2017
  • News
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • Justice Systems

“My time in jail has made me even more committed”: Salil Shetty meets Amnesty Turkey's jailed director

As I walked I was acutely aware of the armed guards in watch towers high above me tracking my every step. I was on my way to meet my colleague and friend İdil Eser, in the highest security section of Turkey’s highest security prison. İdil, the Director of Amnesty International in Turkey, was arrested alongside nine other human rights defenders on absurd terrorism charges more than two months ago. Incredibly – other than her lawyers who see her for one hour each week, and a Member of Parliament – I will be İdil’s first visitor.

Date:
12 September 2017
  • News
  • Egypt
  • Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Egypt: Release 24 Nubian activists detained after protest calling for respect of their cultural rights

Egyptian authorities should immediately release 24 Nubian activists arrested after the police violently dispersed their peaceful protest in Aswan governorate on 3 September, Amnesty International said today. The detained activists, who had been protesting in support of the Nubian Indigenous people’s cultural rights and to call for their return to their homelands in the south of Egypt, are due to appear in court tomorrow, 13 September.

Date:
12 September 2017
  • News
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • Torture and other ill-treatment

“They cannot forget. Neither should we.”

The day her neighbours came to her house is a day Elma remembers vividly. It is a day she wishes she could forget. It was 1992 and the Bosnian War was in its early stages. Elma was in her early 20s, newly married and four months pregnant. “These men were our neighbours,” she tells me. “I watched them take my father and my younger brother. They brutally killed them and left their bodies in the field next to the house.

Date:
12 September 2017
  • News
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Death Penalty

Saudi Arabia: Execution looms for teen tortured to “confess” to protest-related crimes

A young Saudi Arabian Shi’a man who claims he was tortured to “confess” alleged crimes committed when he was 16 years old faces imminent execution, in the latest shocking example of Saudi Arabia’s ruthless clampdown on dissent, said Amnesty International today. The family of Abdulkareem al-Hawaj, now 21, were yesterday informed that the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence for his alleged role in anti-government protests.

Date:
12 September 2017
  • Blog
  • Arms Trade

Killer Facts: The scale of the global arms trade

Even though the Arms Trade Treaty has been in place for four years, global arms trade is still on the rise. As world leaders meet to discuss the treaty, we must remind them that there is still work to do. After more than 20 years of campaigning by Amnesty International and partner NGOs in the Control Arms Coalition, the UN General Assembly voted decisively to adopt the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) text in April 2013.

Date:
12 September 2017
  • News
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • Justice Systems

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Last chance for justice for over 20,000 wartime sexual violence survivors

A quarter of a century after the start of the conflict, more than 20,000 survivors of wartime sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina are still being denied justice, said Amnesty International in a new report. “We need support, not pity:” Last chance for justice for Bosnia’s wartime rape survivors reveals the devastating physical and psychological consequences of these crimes and the unjustifiable barriers preventing women from accessing the support they need and the legal redress to which they are entitled.

Date:
12 September 2017
  • Research
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Armed Conflict

Bosnia and Herzegovina: “We need support, not pity”: Last chance for justice for Bosnia’s wartime rape survivors

Two decades after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, many of the estimated 20,000 women who had been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence are still battling with the pervasive and devastating consequences of these crimes. This report paints a bleak picture of the conditions in which many survivors live today and shows how a combination of factors has resulted in the failure of the authorities to provide the victims with meaningful justice and reparation for the crimes they suffered.

Date:
12 September 2017
Ref:
EUR 63/6679/2017
  • News
  • Iran
  • Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Iran: Arrest of human rights defender seeking truth about disappeared family members

The Iranian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a human rights defender arrested from her home last night, who has previously been targeted by the authorities for her peaceful activism, said Amnesty International. Raheleh Rahemipour has spent years trying to uncover the truth about what happened to her brother and baby niece who were forcibly disappeared while in custody during the early 1980s.

Date:
11 September 2017
  • News
  • Ukraine
  • Unlawful Detention

Crimea: Crimean Tatar leader sentenced to eight years in penal colony following sham trial

Akhtem Chiygoz, a Crimean Tatar leader should be immediately released, said Amnesty International today as he was handed an eight-year sentence following a 13 month long sham trial. “The unfair trial of Akhtem Chiygoz tops a wave of spurious and demonstrably false criminal and administrative cases instigated by the occupying Russian authorities against members of the Crimean Tatar community. It epitomizes the ongoing persecution of these activists whose only ‘crime’ is to vocally oppose Crimea’s annexation by Russia,” said Oksana Pokalchuk, Director for Amnesty International in Ukraine.

Date:
11 September 2017
  • News
  • Arms Trade

Geneva: As global arms trade surges, states greenlight reckless, harmful deals

Diplomats meet in Geneva to discuss landmark Arms Trade Treaty Several countries may be breaking treaty obligations with reckless deals UK, France and Italy among states supplying abusive governments More than four years after the United Nations (UN) voted to adopt a landmark treaty to regulate the international arms trade, major arms exporters including the UK and France are effectively ignoring their treaty obligations by continuing to supply arms even where there is a real risk they could contribute to serious human rights violations, Amnesty International said today.

Date:
11 September 2017
  • Research
  • Nigeria
  • Justice Systems

Nigeria: Ensure Independence and Effectiveness of the Presidential Investigation Panel

Amnesty International commends all attempts by the government of Nigeria to meet its obligations under the Constitution of Nigeria and international law to investigate, prosecute and punish all crimes under international law and other serious violations of human rights law, whether committed by Boko Haram or the Nigerian military and the civilian joint task force. In this respect, Amnesty International welcomes the constitution of a Presidential Investigation Panel on Review of Compliance of Armed Forces with Human Rights Obligations and Rules of Engagement (Presidential Panel) on 11 August 2017.

Date:
11 September 2017
Ref:
AFR 44/7075/2017