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Feb 6 2014 12:30PM
[CHRB] Guizhou Activist Disappeared; Police Role Suspected in “Suicide” of Activist’s Father (1/31-2/6/2014)

China Human Rights Briefing January 31-February 6, 2014 Contents Enforced Disappearance Guizhou Activist, Wife F orcibly Disappeared Since September, Whereabouts Unknown Arbitrary Detention Police Seek Indictment of Journalist Who...

Feb 5 2014 9:51AM
Northern Ireland must embrace Haass on 'the past'

Standing on the shore at Newcastle during the recent tidal surges, I watched wave after wave crashing over the harbour wall. The wall, otherwise imposing on a clear day, seemed a puny human artifice as it was battered by the tide and...

Feb 4 2014 4:09PM
Amnesty UK letter to The Times on the use of barrel bombs by the Syrian government

Letters to the editor The Times letters@thetimes.co.uk Tuesday 4 February 2014 Sir, Growing numbers of reports of the use of “barrel bombs” by Syrian government forces in attacks on Aleppo and elsewhere are absolutely reprehensible and...

Feb 3 2014 2:26PM
South Sudan: Renewed conflict threatens the lives of many children

Owing to a political dispute, on 15 December 2013 violence between rival army factions erupted in South Sudan. As a result thousands of people have been killed, many of them children, with 860,000 displaced. A serious humanitarian...

Jan 31 2014 4:32PM
The Lobby bill becomes law but we won't be silenced

This week the Lobbying Bill (the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill) reached the end of the parliamentary process, gaining Royal Ascent and becoming law. For us at Amnesty International...