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Ekklesia
April 20, 2018
According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, US drone strikes have killed as many as 1,551 civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen since ... Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK's Director, said, “Civilians are dying at the press of a button from a drone operator sitting behind a screenÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
April 19, 2018
According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, US drone strikes have killed up to 1,551 civilians since 2004 in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia. Amnesty International and others have exposed how some drone strikes have violated international law, and may amount to extrajudicialÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
April 19, 2018
On 17 April Amnesty International released a report documenting the collective punishment of women and children related to suspected ISIL members ... The Afghan security forces and all international military forces operating within Afghanistan must prioritize the protection of civilians and strictly adhere toÃÂ ...
Amnesty International UK
April 18, 2018
During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the UK government arrested hundreds of men as part of “Operation Demetrius” in the summer of 1971. 342 people were interned (imprisoned without trial) as part of the Operation. 14 men were chosen for 'special treatment' and were taken to a secret interrogationÃÂ ...
New Europe
April 13, 2018
Amnesty International's latest annual report has found that fewer executions were carried out around the world in 2017 than the year prior. ... In Afghanistan, five people were put to death by hanging, the report said, in what appeared to be a hasty response to a growing number of terrorist attacks.
Los Angeles Times
April 6, 2018
Even if born and raised in Pakistan, Afghan refugees are deported to Afghanistan, a land they've never known .... Each signed a document saying they were "voluntarily returning" to Afghanistan, a practice Amnesty International has said is often illegal, because the detainees are usually not given legalÃÂ ...
Mintpress News
March 23, 2018
Amnesty International-Israel served as a propaganda front busy manipulating “human rights” reports to suit Israel's interests.[4] AI-London has not commented on the manipulation by its Israeli siblings. In 2012, Amnesty erected advertising posters in the US applauding NATO's actions in AfghanistanÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
March 22, 2018
Notwithstanding the progress made, the ongoing conflict and terrorist attacks continued to inflict immense suffering on Afghan people, and continued .... KATE GILMORE, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, presented reports concerning Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti and Yemen.
Amnesty International
March 22, 2018
De Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State oordeelt vandaag in een uitspraak dat, hoewel de veiligheidssituatie in Afghanistan als geheel “zorgelijk” is, Afghaanse asielzoekers geen recht hebben op asiel enkel vanwege het feit dat zij uit dit land komen. Als gevolg van deze uitspraak dreigtÃÂ ...
NL Times
March 21, 2018
The Council based its ruling on reports and documents from various organizations, including the United Nations, Amnesty International, and Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland. On Wednesday at least 26 people were killed in an attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul, according to the broadcaster. A terrorist blewÃÂ ...
DutchNews.nl
March 21, 2018
The Council of State was ruling on an appeal brought by an Afghan man whose request for asylum had been rejected. ... The court said it had based its ruling on reports by 16 Dutch and international organisations, including the UN, Amnesty International and refugee organisation Vluchtelingenwerk.
DutchNews.nl
March 21, 2018
The Council of State was ruling on an appeal brought by an Afghan man whose request for asylum had been rejected. ... The court said it had based its ruling on reports by 16 Dutch and international organisations, including the UN, Amnesty International and refugee organisation Vluchtelingenwerk.
CommonSpace
March 20, 2018
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned a new ruling from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concluding that British authorities did not engage in torture during the ... Following the memos' specifications, the CIA would use the 'five techniques' on victims in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The New Indian Express
March 20, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to resolve hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances for which ... Pakistan has had a history of enforced disappearances over the past decade, mainly confined in the past to conflict zones near the Afghanistan borderÃÂ ...
ABC News
March 6, 2018
According to Amnesty International, Afghanistan's minister of finance, Eklil Hakimi, told the Afghan Parliament in 2016: "If Afghanistan does not cooperate with E.U. countries on the refugee crisis, this will negatively impact the amount of aid allocated to Afghanistan." And Afghanistan can't survive withoutÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
February 22, 2018
In its annual report for 2071/2018, titled The State of the World's Human Rights, released on Thursday, Amnesty International (AI) painted a grim picture of human rights violations and casualties in Afghanistan during the reporting period and said ongoing conflict continues to cause widespread suffering.
NPR
February 22, 2018
Amnesty International released its annual report Thursday, highlighting a worsening of human rights worldwide. The report ... Germany, grappling with an influx of refugees from the Middle East and Afghanistan, reported more than 1,000 criminal offenses against refugees and asylum seekers. But theÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
February 21, 2018
As well as refugees, Amnesty International's The State of the World's Human Rights 2017-2018 report references the former government's failure to ... into allegations made in the book "Hit and Run", namely, that the New Zealand Defence Force committed war crimes during a 2010 raid in Afghanistan.
The Guardian
February 19, 2018
In 2016, 785 people were returned from the UK to Afghanistan, and between 2007 and 2015, 2,018 people who had sought refuge in the UK as unaccompanied child asylum seekers were deported to Afghanistan, according to a report from Amnesty International. The annual report quoted Eklil Hakimi,ÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
January 24, 2018
“We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Save the Children following this dreadful news, which comes after a wave of violence against civilians including the deadly assault at the Intercontinental Hotel. “It is an organisation that has worked tirelessly in Afghanistan for more than four decades, deliveringÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
November 7, 2017
"The attack on Shamshad TV is a horrific crime that tragically demonstrates the risks Afghanistan's journalists face for their legitimate work. The Afghan authorities must do what they can to protect the country's media, allowing them to work freely and without fear. The perpetrators must be brought to justiceÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
October 4, 2017
Several people Amnesty International interviewed for the report were sent to parts of Afghanistan they had never known, despite the dangerous situation ... in Afghanistan, European governments recognized it when the European Union (EU) signed the “Joint Way Forward,” an agreement to return AfghanÃÂ ...
Messenger.ge
December 31, 1999
(LONDON)--The Amnesty International, a London-based NGO for human rights with more than seven million members and supporters worldwide, has released its annual report, saying ... The Amnesty International mentioned the case of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Afghan Mukhtarli in its report.
Amnesty International USA
December 31, 1999
The Kabul Process conference must put the protection of Afghan civilians and accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the heart of its discussions this week, Amnesty International said. Leaders and representatives of 23 governments, the United Nations, the European Union and theÃÂ ...
Yahoo India News
February 25, 2018
... and subject people to unlawful surveillance," said Biraj Patnaik, Amnesty International's South Asia Director. "South Asia also remains one of the most dangerous regions to be a member of a religious minority. Muslims in India and Sri Lanka, Shi'as in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Hindus in BangladeshÃÂ ...
NPR
February 23, 2018
Amnesty International released its annual report Thursday, highlighting a worsening of human rights worldwide. The report ... Germany, grappling with an influx of refugees from the Middle East and Afghanistan, reported more than 1,000 criminal offenses against refugees and asylum seekers. But theÃÂ ...
The Student
February 16, 2018
Abdul from the Scottish Refugee Council, who emigrated from Afghanistan to Glasgow in 2001, opened the proceedings. He said: “I came as a refugee with a dream… somewhere to establish a family, somewhere safe and that was Glasgow for me, [I consider myself] an active citizen of Scotland.
DAWN.com
January 27, 2018
Last year, Amnesty International came out in support of the refugees and officially refuted Berlin's assertion. They put it very simply, saying: “No Afghan should be returned to Afghanistan.” Meanwhile, after each attack come the condemnations. In response to Saturday's bombing, Chief Executive AbdullahÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
January 24, 2018
“We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Save the Children following this dreadful news, which comes after a wave of violence against civilians including the deadly assault at the Intercontinental Hotel. “It is an organisation that has worked tirelessly in Afghanistan for more than four decades, deliveringÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
November 7, 2017
"The attack on Shamshad TV is a horrific crime that tragically demonstrates the risks Afghanistan's journalists face for their legitimate work. The Afghan authorities must do what they can to protect the country's media, allowing them to work freely and without fear. The perpetrators must be brought to justiceÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
October 4, 2017
Several people Amnesty International interviewed for the report were sent to parts of Afghanistan they had never known, despite the dangerous situation ... in Afghanistan, European governments recognized it when the European Union (EU) signed the “Joint Way Forward,” an agreement to return AfghanÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
December 31, 1999
As well as refugees, Amnesty International's The State of the World's Human Rights 2017-2018 report references the former government's failure to ... into allegations made in the book "Hit and Run", namely, that the New Zealand Defence Force committed war crimes during a 2010 raid in Afghanistan.
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
In 2016, 785 people were returned from the UK to Afghanistan, and between 2007 and 2015, 2,018 people who had sought refuge in the UK as unaccompanied child asylum seekers were deported to Afghanistan, according to a report from Amnesty International. The annual report quoted Eklil Hakimi,ÃÂ ...
The Local Sweden
November 27, 2017
One of the main groups affected are minors from Afghanistan, after ... groups including Amnesty International, which said the deportations went ...
CBC.ca
November 27, 2017
Afghan National Security Forces, the Taliban, and its offshoot Haqqani ... Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, who did three tours in Afghanistan as a ... a series of legal battles with Amnesty International Canada and the B.C. Civil ...
HuffPost
November 18, 2017
In what Amnesty International's Solomon Sacco called a “seminal moment ... on US military and CIA leaders, as well as Taliban and Afghan officials. ... had been committed “by US military forces deployed to Afghanistan and in ...
Amnesty International
November 12, 2017
... in favour of a temporary stay on all returns to Afghanistan, Amnesty International said today. ... Taibeh, 18, was born in Iran to Afghan parents.
theday.com
November 8, 2017
Afghan TV network attacked, anchor returns with hands bandaged ... KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunmen disguised as police officers stormed the ... work,” said Amnesty International's deputy South Asia director, Omar Waraich.
Amnesty International
November 7, 2017
Afghanistan: Deadly attack on TV station is a horrific crime ... The Afghan authorities must do what they can to protect the country's media, ...
Amnesty International
November 4, 2017
Justice for victims of the Afghanistan conflict has taken far too long to arrive, but ... Over the past 12 years, Amnesty International has repeatedly raised ... other ill-treatment allegedly committed by the Afghan government forces ...
Amnesty International
October 31, 2017
“The Afghan authorities have a responsibility to do whatever they can to protect ... “The unrelenting violence in Afghanistan also shows that the ...
Amnesty International
October 30, 2017
... with plans to return them to Afghanistan, Amnesty International said today. ... Taibeh Abbasi was born in Iran to Afghan parents and fled to ...
The Local Germany
October 25, 2017
Germany expelled 14 rejected Afghan asylum seekers, the interior ... Germany resumed deportations of rejected asylum seekers from Afghanistan last month ... Amnesty International warned European governments earlier this ...
Los Angeles Times
October 25, 2017
Born April 7, 1951, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wali spent her childhood ... She was awarded the Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Award in ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
October 20, 2017
(Via Amnesty International UK) ... The photograph, however, does capture something that has been lost not just in Afghanistan since the rise of the Taliban, but ... Not every Afghan woman wore a miniskirt in the 1970s, but they ...
Amnesty International
October 20, 2017
Today Amnesty International launches a new briefing at the UN General ... consequences for civilians in countries like Yemen and Afghanistan.
New York Times
October 16, 2017
Sima Wali, who fled the Soviet-backed coup in Afghanistan in 1978 to ... She received the Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Fund Award in ...
Voice of America
October 13, 2017
Human rights group Amnesty International held events Thursday to mark ... who is leaving Turkey to assume a new assignment in Afghanistan.
TOLOnews
October 13, 2017
This positioned Afghanistan in top three countries with highest number of refugees in ... In this episode of Purso Pal, host Farahnaz Frotan discusses the Afghan ... with Horia Mosaddiq, adviser and researcher at the Amnesty International.
Amnesty International
October 13, 2017
Amnesty International supports the demands for justice voiced by Setayesh's bereaved family and the wider Afghan community in Iran, but ...
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