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23 Apr 2014, 10:37 am by Kimberly Bennett
[JURIST] Migrant workers in Qatar face human rights abuse including forced labor, excessively long working hours, verbal harassment, and physical and sexual violence, according to an Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] report [report, PDF] released Wednesday. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 5:39 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Thursday issued a report [text, PDF; press release] calling on the UK government to end the use of control orders issued against terrorism suspect. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 7:30 am by EEM
The report is available here:"This is breaking people": Human Rights Violations at Australia’s Asylum Seeker Processing Centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (Amnesty International, Dec. 2013) [text]- See also AI's "The Truth about Manus Island." [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 11:30 am
Amnesty International has issued a report with alarming statistics on Native American women and rape. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 8:21 am by Patti Spencer
The program does not apply to any tax administered by another state, the federal government or Internal Revenue Service. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 3:00 am by Broc Romanek
As noted by Cooley’s Cydney Posner in this blog, the DC Circuit court of Appeals has granted the petitions of the SEC and Amnesty International for a panel rehearing (and the motion of Amnesty to file a supplemental brief) in connection with NAM v. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 1:18 pm
The decision went on to claim that even if the case were to be investigated by the judiciary, it would have to fail due to the principle of legality, the expiration of the statute of limitations and the 1977 Amnesty Law.The Court concluded that international law relating to crimes against humanity is not applicable to the crimes in question due to the principle of legality. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 8:30 am by EEM
Crying for Justice: Victims' Perspectives on Justice for the Post-election Violence in Kenya (Amnesty International, July 2014) [text]DR Congo: North Kivu’s Long, Rocky Road to Stability (Refugees International, July 2014) [text]DRC Refugees and the Limits of Durable Solutions (IRIN, July 2014) [text]Kenyan Government Cracking Down on Somali Refugees (RI Blog, July 2014) [text]Refugees and Transitional Justice: Reflections on Fieldwork from Liberia… [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 6:15 am by EEM
  The Consequences of Limited Legal Status for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: NRC Lebanon Field Assessment - Aarsal and Wadi Khaled (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2013) [text]An International Failure: The Syrian Refugee Crisis (Amnesty International, Dec. 2013) [text]- See also related press release and news story.Let's Hear It for the Hosts (RI Blog, Dec. 2013) [text]Reproductive Health Services for Syrian Refugees in Zaatri Refugee Camp and Irbid City,… [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 9:12 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International and Reporters without Borders [advocacy websites] Friday accused Egypt of clamping down on freedom of the press after a court sentenced the editors of four tabloids for publishing criticisms of President Hosni Mubarak [official profile] and the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) [party website]. [read post]
12 Apr 2019, 5:22 am
Lastly, the volume offers a detailed analysis of techniques that may neutralize relevant obligations under international law, such as denunciation, derogation, limitation, and the public international law defenses of force majeure and necessity. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 11:22 pm
Yesterday, the Canadian Federal Court issued an opinion in the case Canadian Council for Refugees, Canadian Council of Churches, Amnesty International, and John Doe v. [read post]
17 Oct 2009, 4:51 am
Amnesty International issued the following urgent appeal on 30 July 2009 on behalf of Mongolian man facing execution for murder. [read post]
Amnesty International reported in May that human rights, including dissent, is under attack under as the crisis worsens. [read post]
1 Oct 2009, 7:51 pm by Rob Teuber
The program allows taxpayers to disclosure the foreign accounts, pay any tax related to those accounts and reduce the amount of penalties that will be imposed.Unfortunately, however, this Voluntary Disclosure Program (i.e. amnesty) is only available with the reduced penalty structure for a limited amount of time. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 12:08 am by Adam Wagner
Similarly, in 2007 The Economist criticised Amnesty International – the world’s largest human rights organisation – for what it perceived as a drift from its original campaigns on freedom from judicial persecution to a broader mission for political and economic improvement. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 10:02 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
The seven impediments are: (1) Amnesties, (2) Pardons, (3) Statutes of Limitation, (4) Abuse of Process, (5) Immunities, (6) Ne bis in idem (double jeopardy), and (7) Male captus bene detentus (wrongly captured, properly detained). [read post]