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Irish officials will investigate if the mass grave for almost 800 babies discovered near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns is an isolated case, Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Thursday.

• 07 июня 2014, 00:52

Amnesty International urged the Nigerian security forces Friday to disclose the whereabouts of a man who was arrested after tweeting pictures of an attempted jail break at the headquarters of the intelligence agency.

• 12 апреля 2014, 18:07

A Chinese human rights activist died on Friday after falling critically ill in detention after police denied her medical treatment for months, her brother said.

• 15 марта 2014, 13:17

Amnesty International on Thursday urged governments to stop criminalising people's sex lives and instead protect their right to control their own bodies.

• 07 марта 2014, 10:14

"Ethnic cleansing" is being carried out against Muslim civilians in the Central African Republic, with international peacekeepers unable to prevent it.

• 12 февраля 2014, 17:52

Feted by Madonna and cheered by thousands, Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot defied President Vladimir Putin on the eve of the Sochi Olympics at a star-studded New York concert.

• 06 февраля 2014, 18:32

Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot on Tuesday took their campaign against Vladimir Putin's civil liberties crackdown to New York, where they are to tread the same stage as Madonna.

• 05 февраля 2014, 19:20

Brazil's branch of Amnesty International on Sunday held a rally in Rio to protest what it termed Russia's "homophobia".

• 03 февраля 2014, 11:51

Kazakhstan is not going to give up on Mukhtar Ablyazov's extradition from France.

• 14 января 2014, 16:45

Mexico's enormous and worsening poverty figures underscore that authorities have not made fighting it a top priority.

• 31 июля 2013, 12:16

The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for refugees and migrants.

• 24 мая 2013, 10:32

The use of the death penalty is broadly diminishing around the world although a handful of countries that had not used capital punishment for several years resumed executions in 2012.

• 10 апреля 2013, 13:11

Amnesty International appealed to Saudi Arabia not to carry out a reported sentence of paralysis for a man in retribution for allegedly paralysing another man 10 years ago.

• 04 апреля 2013, 18:25

Amnesty International on Thursday accused South Korea of systematically abusing a 65-year-old security law in order to stifle debate and silence political opposition in Asia's fourth-largest economy.

• 29 ноября 2012, 16:48

Amnesty International on Thursday said Colombia has failed to halt sexual violence linked to its long war with leftist FARC rebels.

• 05 октября 2012, 18:37

Rights group Amnesty International said Friday investigations into Shell oil spills in Nigeria were a "fiasco," alleging the company repeatedly blamed sabotage in an effort to avoid responsibility.

• 04 августа 2012, 12:11