Activists and supporters of Amnesty International will launch a week of action on Monday highlighting the continued detention of thousands of displaced civilians in government camps in Sri Lanka.
The Egyptian authorities must take immediate and inclusive steps to
protect Cairo's poorest inhabitants living in "unsafe areas", according to a new Amnesty International report.
Amnesty International has condemned the use of apparently toxic
pesticides to intimidate an indigenous community after they resisted
being forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands.
Scores of Nigerians lost their homes on Friday morning when Rivers
state authorities began bulldozing buildings in Port Harcourt, Amnesty
International has learned.
Hundreds of people have been forced from their homes to make way for a
commercial development in Rivers State, Nigeria, Amnesty International
has learned.
As refugees begin to leave the Mahmur camp in northern Iraq, Amnesty International has urged the authorities to allow
Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin to return without harassment
and discrimination.
