Kategorie: Humans

Angolan authorities have escalated a crackdown on dissent in recent months by using disproportionate and unnecessary force, including unlawful killings, to disperse protests and tackle breaches of state of emergency regulations imposed to stem the spread of COVID-19, Amnesty International said today.

The investigation into Wanchalearm’s enforced disappearence is moving at a snail’s pace and key evidence appears to be ignored.

Attacked by Boko Haram, detained by the military and ignored in in humanitarian aid – older people are often an invisible casualty of the conflict in NE Nigeria, a new Amnesty International report finds.

The US military must not wash its hands of international legal obligations towards civilian victims of US air strikes in Somalia, Amnesty International said, following a Pentagon announcement that troops will be removed by January 2021.