Crackdown on Refugees from Burma
The humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is reporting that the Bangladesh government has launched a crackdown against the Rohingya community around the Cox’s Bazar district (see...
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On 60th Anniversary of Refugee Convention States Failing Refugees
”They stripped me naked and assaulted me. I begged them to kill me. Instead, they cut off my hands with machetes.” - Amnesty International Interview, Sierra Leone, 1996 The Dhehiba camp in Tunisia © AI...
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Did Myanmar President Thein Sein Deserve the Warm Welcome?
The warm White House reception, combined with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s call for the suspension of sanctions on imports from Myanmar, gave President Thein Sein a big boost. Did he...
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Life Under Pinochet: ‘I Remember Being Shown Some Very Severe Signs of Torture’
In advance of the International Day of the Disappeared on August 30th, we have the following feature on Augusto Pinochet’s regime. Roger Plant joined Amnesty International in 1972 to cover the...
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