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Two protesters have been shot dead by police in the northeastern Indian state of Assam during unrest over a new law denounced as anti-Muslim. Thousands of troops have been deployed to the northern region to deal with widespread rioting over the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), which offers citizenship to people of all faiths — other than Islam — fleeing persecution in neighbouring countries. On 12 December, security forces fired on … Read more →

Today, on International Genocide Day, 30 human rights, academic and professional organisations from ten countries jointly launched an international “Boycott Myanmar Campaign” in order to bring to bear economic, cultural, diplomatic and political pressure on Myanmar’s coalition government of Aung San Suu Kyi and the military. The launch of the campaign coincides with the arrival in the Hague of Myanmar’s de facto head of state, Suu Kyi, as this week, … Read more →

In a new report released today, UNICEF reveals that the number of Caribbean children displaced by storms has risen approximately six-fold in the past five years. Catastrophic tropical cyclones and hurricanes uprooted an estimated 761,000 children in the region between 2014 and 2018, which also was the hottest five-year period on record. The preceding five-year period, 2009 to 2013, saw some 175,000 Caribbean youngsters displaced. But it is not just … Read more →

UN delegates gathered in Madrid on 2 December for the opening of ‘COP25’ Climate Change Conference. The conference will be held from 2 -13 December in Madrid and comes as a next step in the process of advancing UN initiatives on climate change. The summit is expected to be attended by delegates from 197 countries or ‘Parties to the Convention’ who have ratified the 1994 United Nations Framework Convention on … Read more →

On Sunday 1 December, Malta’s prime minister Joseph Muscat announced that he will resign next month following protests over a 2017 car bombing that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, a prominent anti-corruption journalist. Mr Muscat was under pressure to quit over his former top aide’s alleged links to the killing of the journalist. The resignation is a step in the right direction to end impunity for crimes against journalists. Mr Muscat … Read more →

More than two years after they were first detained, Turkey’s State Prosecutor has made a request for the conviction of Amnesty Turkey’s honorary chair, Taner Kılıç, former director İdil Eser and four other human rights defenders on terrorism-related charges. If convicted, they risk up to 15 years imprisonment. The next, and presumably final trial hearing, is set to take place on 19 February 2020. Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Regional Director … Read more →