Poverty | Amnesty International

Thousands face mass eviction from homes and market stalls in Zimbabwe - 23 July 2009

Up to 200 people from an informal settlement in the Harare suburb of Gunhill in Zimbabwe face being forcibly evicted without being given adequate notice or any consu

Cambodian security forces forcibly evict 60 low-income families - 17 July 2009

The families dismantled their homes after three years of government harassment and intimidation, with no choice but to accept inadequate compensation rather than have

Nairobi slum-dwellers march for better conditions and basic human rights - 12 June 2009

Secretary General Irene Khan led the marchers who came from informal settlements all over Kenya's capital - a city where over half the population live in slu

Kenya High-Level Mission Slideshow

A slideshow of photographs taken during Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan's high-level mission to Kenya on 8-12 June. While in Kenya, Ms Khan visited two informal settl

Two million people live in a human rights black hole in the slums of Nairobi - 12 June 2009

Successive Kenyan governments have failed to protect slum dwellers and generations of neglect by politicians has allowed such informal settlements to swell, according

Demand dignity for slum dwellers in Nairobi - 9 June 2009

More than half of Nairobi’s population – some two million people – live without adequate access to water, hospitals, schools and other essential publ

Amnesty International begins visit to Kenya with the marginalised - 8 June 2009

Amnesty International's Secretary General kicked off her first high level mission in Kenya with visits to two informal settlements in Nairobi – a city in which

Empowering the world's poor - 27 May 2009

A new Amnesty International campaign will empower "prisoners of poverty" as previous campaigns empowered prisoners of conscience.

Economic crisis reveals deeper human rights problems - 28 May 2009

More than six decades of human rights failures by governments have been exacerbated by the world economic crisis, which brought the problems of poverty and inequalit

Obama - Building trust and respect for human rights in the US - 29 April 2009

Those who watched Barack Obama take office on 20 January were part of a far-reaching celebration of the once seemingly impossible becoming reality.