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May 7 2013 12:35PM
Tea, cake, and human rights

Everyone loves a bit of tea and cake, yes? That was one of the main reasons we came up with AmnesTea - a fundraising event that's endlessly changeable depending on what you'd like to do! The pun for a name was a bonus, of course. So I...

May 3 2013 2:42AM
Targeting media activists in Syria: The case of Mus'ab al-Hamadi

Mus’ab al-Hamadi, aged 32, is a well-known media activist and member of the Local Coordination Committee (LCC) in Hama. He has been heavily involved in collating information and posting videos of abuses committed by Syrian government...

May 2 2013 10:59AM
El Salvador: Woman denied life-saving treatment

Update, 5 June After an agonising 14 week wait, Beatriz has finally had a the life-saving treatment she needed and has had a cesarean section in El Salvador. The foetus apparently was born, as predicted, with large parts of her head...

Apr 30 2013 3:57PM
Tackling rape as a weapon of war

Human rights breakthroughs are like buses, you wait ages for one… We’d barely recovered from the excitement of the Arms Trade Treaty vote at the United Nations on 2 April, when on 11 April, Foreign Secretary William Hague and the 7...

Apr 26 2013 11:58PM
Syria: Child held incommunicado

Ahmed Ismael al-‘Akkad, a sixteen-year-old Syrian boy has been held in detention since 20 November 2012. He suffers from chronic Asthma and has allegedly been ill-treated and denied medical treatment. The child was arrested when the...