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The high civilian death toll - including scores of women and children - in Houla must spur the Security Council to act in unison and immediately refer the situation in Syria to the ICC.

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PA's West Bank General Intelligence Service is planning to use Global Network for Rights and Development as a front to affect policies towards Palestinians, according to leaked documents.

The European Parliament's joining the intensive anti-Azerbaijani campaign conducted by "Human Rights Watch" and "Amnesty International", causes regret and surprise, "Ana Vatan" party said today.

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A new Amnesty International report paints a gruesome picture of summary executions, torture and ill-treatment in North Korea as Kim Jong Un succeeded his late father, Kim Jong Il, as the country's ruler last December.

As previously mentioned , a release from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs this week makes an important call for renewed efforts to combat cholera as infections rise with the rainy season.

Much of the report focuses on the pro-democracy protests and civil unrest that swept the Middle East and Northern Africa in the last year.

Lawyers representing Bradley Manning, the Welsh-educated army analyst accused of the biggest leak of classified information in American history, are seeking the dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts he faces under a US court martial.

INDIGENOUS leader Bess Price has launched a scathing attack on human rights group Amnesty International for its criticisms of Gillard government proposals to extend parts of the federal intervention in the Northern Territory for a further 10 years.

Amnesty International condemns today's murder of Shabelle media network journalist Ahmed Adow Anshur in Mogadishu, the seventh journalist to be killed by gunmen in the past six months in Somalia.

Picture: Cynthia Nixon The 78th Annual Drama League Awards, held at the Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel - Arrivals New York City, USA -.... Sir Patrick Stewart, Cynthia Nixon and Meryl Streep are among the stars backing an open letter urging U.S. President Barack Obama to support women's rights in Afghanistan.

The note from Amnesty International calls for Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai to make sure the rights of females in the war-torn country are not affected when international troops pull out.

Amnesty International on Thursday said Burma's military is committing crimes against humanity in ethnic conflict zones, where ongoing fighting has overshadowed sweeping political changes.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS CONCERNS OVER ARMENIA, TOO http://www.yerkirmedia.am/?act=news&lan=en&id=7318 13:30 . 24/05 The international human rights organization Amnesty International has published its annual 2012 report on the freedoms and human rights protection in the world.

Thirty North Korean officials, once involved in inter-Korean talks, are believed to have been executed either by firing squad or killed in staged traffic accidents, a human rights advocacy group said Thursday.

Amnesty International has sharply criticised the U.N. Security Council for leadership failures, including inaction on government violence in Syria.

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In recent years such international organisations as the Amnesty International and Human Right Watch have spread only biased and based on double standards reports, the chairman of the Organisation of Integration of Azerbaijani Youth to Europe , Gulsel Safarova, told Trend on Thursday.

Belarus is characterized by deterioration of the economic situation, growth of tensions in the society and further limitations of freedom by the authorities, Radio Svaboda informs.