Governments in Africa must end the practice of forced evictions that
leave hundreds of thousands homeless every year, Amnesty International
said on World Habitat Day, 5 October.
The three men were part of a group of seven undocumented migrants from El Salvador
and Ecuador who where shot at by Mexican security forces as they
crossed into the state of Chiapas.
A new Amnesty International report documents rape and other violence against Darfuri women and girls, carried out both inside and outside of refugee camps.
Two Iranian refugees remain in detention in Turkey despite a European
Court of Human Rights ruling on Tuesday should be released, according
to Amnesty International.
Amnesty International warns that the discovery of the remains of over 160 victims of extrajudicial execution in Pakistan's Swat Valley highlights the ongoing human rights
crisis in the country’s northwestern areas.
Some seeking safe haven from the fighting between government troops and militants in the Sa'da region, are said to have been denied entry. Others have been forcibly returned to the conflict zone.
Only a fraction of nearly 300,000 people who were displaced by recent
fighting in the north east of Sri Lanka have been allowed to leave
government camps since the war ended in May.
