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Haiti: "Quick fix" housing for earthquake survivors leave Haitians homeless or in limbo

Tens of thousands of survivors of Haiti’s earthquake which rocked the Caribbean country five years ago are homeless as a result of forced evictions and government policy failure Amnesty Inter

Child abuse inquiry: New hearing set to be 'one of the darkest chapters'

Amnesty International today warned that the latest hearing in the historic institutional abuse inquiry in Northern Ireland which got underway today will be one of the darkest chapters in the ongoin

EGYPT: Retrial of Al Jazeera journalists must pave way to their unconditional freedom

An Egyptian court’s call for a retrial of three jailed Al Jazeera journalists acknowledges major flaws in the original convictions but leaves the men in unjust incarceration, Amnesty Internat

Northern Ireland: Amnesty predicts 2015 court challenge to same-sex marriage ban

Amnesty International has welcomed the first same-sex weddings in Scotland and said it looked forward to a court challenge in

Eastern Ukraine: humanitarian disaster looms as food aid blocked by pro-Kiev battalions

‘Using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime’ - Denis Krivosheev

Iraq: new briefing on Yezidi women and girls kidnapped and turned into sex slaves by Islamic State

‘Many of those held as sexual slaves are children - girls aged 14, 15 or even younger’ - Donatella Rovera

New letter to Prime Minister on need for judge-led inquiry into UK complicity in torture

‘No10 is acting like it’s afraid to turn over too many stones for fear of what it might find underneath’ - Kate Allen

Arms Trade Treaty: 128 states sign up to tougher global arms controls

China, Canada and Russia yet to sign North Korea, Iran, Syria - only three voted against the Treaty