The Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have yet to come to terms with the trauma they had experienced in Myanmar. Ahmer Khan visited Cox’s Bazar to document in photographs the Rohingya people with what they held dearest to them during their troubled escape from home…writes Saad Hammadi
The human rights crisis that has engulfed Venezuela for the past few years has shattered the lives of millions of people. Here’s what you need to know:
At 13.00 on 7 March 2019 at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, the Chulalongkorn University’s Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, the Mahidol University’s Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP), and Amnesty International Thailand organized a roundtable on “Listening to political parties and their human rights policies”. Political parties have been invited to discuss their human rights policies and an opening address was delivered by Professor Emeritus Vitit Muntarbhorn, an expert in international law. The event was moderated by Nattha Komolvadhin, a TV host from TPBS.
Responding to news that the Constitutional Court has ruled on the request to dissolve the Thai Raksa Chart Party, Katherine Gerson, Amnesty International’s Thailand campaigner said:
Thailand’s next government will need to lift undue restrictions on freedom of expression and limit arbitrary executive powers, Amnesty International said ahead of polling day on 24 March.
Governments across the world are increasingly attacking non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by creating laws that subject them and their staff to surveillance, nightmarish bureaucratic hurdles and the ever-present threat of imprisonment, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.
The human rights crisis that has engulfed Venezuela for the past few years has shattered the lives of millions of people. Here’s what you need to know:
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Ahead of the biggest showbiz event of the year, we explore the human rights themes of three Oscar-nominated films – and find activism inspiration in some unlikely places.
For the past few months Israeli army bulldozers have been rolling in and out of Khan al-Ahmar, a small Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank. So far, the bulldozers have just been levelling the ground. But soon they will return to demolish dozens of homes, as well as the school, clinic and mosque which serve this community. Israel’s Supreme Court approved the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar in September, and its 180 residents have been given two “choices” for relocation: a site near the former Jerusalem municipal garbage dump, or a site next to a sewage plant near Jericho.
At this time of year, people often send a wish for world peace out into the universe. But how does the world even start to move towards such a lofty goal?
Responding to news that footballer Hakeem Ali al-Araibi will not be extradited to Bahrain, Amnesty International’s Minar Pimple, Senior Director of Global Operations, said: