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Jun 17 2013 9:43AM
The Business of Human Rights

Amnesty Scotland is closely involved with the Human Rights Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament. The last meeting gave us some insight into how businesses handle human rights issues and the impact UK-registered companies have...

Jun 17 2013 7:51AM
G8 must put rights at heart of decisions

Speech delivered by Amnesty's Patrick Corrigan on Saturday from the platform in front of Belfast City Hall as part of the March for a Fairer World, marking the G8 summit, to be held in Northern Ireland this week: "We are here today in...

Jun 16 2013 12:23PM
A hospital in Amnesty's Turkey office

Murat Çekiç, Director of Amnesty Turkey, on a sleepless week in Istanbul. As I write this, there are at least 10,000 people in Taksim Square, all protesting for 10,000 reasons. But here in our office, everything is calm. We had a...

Jun 14 2013 5:13PM
Photographer Documenting Forced Labor & Tiananmen Massacre Secretly Detained (6/7-12, 2013)

China Human Rights Briefing June 7-June 12, 2013 Contents Reprisals Against Activists’ Family Members Liu Xiaobo’s Brother-in-law Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison Arbitrary Detention Du Bin Held Incommunicado After Documenting Forced...

Jun 14 2013 4:58PM
Election date set for Zimbabwe, but will it hold?

Update 17June: Following the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Mozambique on Saturday, SADC recommended that the Zimbabwean government push the election date back to 14 August. Zimbabwe's constitutional court now...