# amnesty - Tuesday 21 January, 2020
# Northern Ireland
# Northern Ireland
Amnesty International said: “If a church wishes to offer weddings to same-sex couples of faith, then the law should not get in the way.”
# amnesty - Saturday 21 December, 2019
# Restrictions
# Restrictions
The government banned the most lethal types of semi-automatic weapons after a gunman killed 51 worshippers at two mosques.
# amnesty - Sunday 9 June, 2019
# Amnesty
# Amnesty
The bill passed by parliament also closes the door on investigating and punishing security forces involved in repressing the protests.
# amnesty - Monday 10 December, 2018
# Rights Today
# Rights Today
A new report said some leaders are using “bully tactics” to “demonise and persecute” vulnerable people.
# amnesty - Tuesday 31 July, 2018
# Funding
# Funding
The donation was for Amnesty ’s ‘My Body, My Rights’ campaign which sought a referendum on the Eighth Amendment.
# amnesty - Tuesday 17 April, 2018
# Amnesty International
# Amnesty International
An Amnesty International report has expressed concern about how women and children are sexually exploited.
# amnesty - Thursday 12 April, 2018
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.
# amnesty - Monday 9 April, 2018
# Debate
# Debate
The North’s abortion laws are considered some of the most severe in the world, according to Amnesty .
# amnesty - Tuesday 20 March, 2018
# Torture
# Torture
The case involves the alleged torture and ill-treatment of 14 men who were interned in the North in 1971.
# amnesty - Sunday 4 February, 2018
# Eighth Amendment
# Eighth Amendment
The organisation is seeking legal advice about an ongoing dispute over a €137,000 grant it received.
# amnesty - Wednesday 13 December, 2017
# George Soros
# George Soros
The law bans any foreign donations that aren’t from an Irish citizen who resides outside the island.
# amnesty - Friday 20 October, 2017
# Homeward Bound
# Homeward Bound
The 21-year-old spent more than four years in jail.
# amnesty - Friday 15 September, 2017
# Myanmar
# Myanmar
“The evidence is irrefutable,” Amnesty said.
# amnesty - Tuesday 12 September, 2017
# Bosnian War
# Bosnian War
Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International Ireland says the report shows that the women are being forgotten.
# amnesty - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
# Obama Scheme
# Obama Scheme
The Obama-era programme is being rescinded.
# amnesty - Sunday 16 July, 2017
# Cairo
# Cairo
The next hearing will be on 25 July.
# amnesty - Tuesday 4 July, 2017
# South Sudan
# South Sudan
Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.
# amnesty - Thursday 8 June, 2017
# War On Terror
# War On Terror
Theresa May is talking about ‘ripping up’ human rights laws – so how important is it that she doesn’t?
# amnesty - Wednesday 17 May, 2017
# Cairo
# Cairo
Now aged 21, Halawa has spent almost four years in jail.
# amnesty - Wednesday 10 May, 2017
# Xie Yang
# Xie Yang
Xie Yang, who was arrested in 2015, pleaded guilty to charges of “inciting subversion of state power”.
# Gender Surgery
# Gender Surgery
“We’re talking about incisions being made to sensitive tissue, with life-long consequences, all because of stereotypes about what a boy or girl should look like.”
# amnesty - Wednesday 26 April, 2017
# Egypt
# Egypt
Concerns have been raised about his health.
# amnesty - Wednesday 15 February, 2017
# Sex Laws
# Sex Laws
The new laws criminalise the purchase of sexual services in Ireland.
# amnesty - Wednesday 1 February, 2017
# Drug War
# Drug War
The Amnesty report called it a “murderous war on the poor”.
# amnesty - Thursday 12 January, 2017
# Bin The Blade
# Bin The Blade
The plans come in the wake of three serious stabbings in the last four weeks.
# amnesty - Wednesday 30 November, 2016
# Amnesty
# Amnesty
The investigation claims to show a wide range of abuses.
# amnesty - Friday 14 October, 2016
# Murder Capitals
# Murder Capitals
The human rights group has said more must be done to tackle what is fast-becoming another out-of-control refugee crisis.
# amnesty - Thursday 18 August, 2016
# Five Years Of War
# Five Years Of War
Many people witnessed prisoners dying in custody and some described being held in cells alongside dead bodies.
# amnesty - Monday 25 July, 2016
# Turkey
# Turkey
The number of people being detained in the wake of the attempted coup has surged above 13,000.
# amnesty - Wednesday 13 July, 2016
# Amnesty International
# Amnesty International
A new report shows that hundreds of students, political activists and protesters have vanished.
# amnesty - Sunday 3 July, 2016
# Torture
# Torture
Mexican women have suffered abuse at the hands of police, army and navy forces after their (often unjustified) arrests.
# amnesty - Thursday 31 March, 2016
# Punishment
# Punishment
Amnesty International is also not happy with the Republican’s comments.
# World Cup Workers
# World Cup Workers
A new Amnesty report accuses the Gulf state of exploiting workers as it prepares for the 2022 tournament.
# amnesty - Friday 18 March, 2016
# Refugees
# Refugees
Under the deal, all new irregular migrants arriving in Greece will be sent back to Turkey.
# amnesty - Tuesday 19 January, 2016
# Child Labour
# Child Labour
The human rights organisation has accused Apple and Samsung, among others, of failing to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products.
# amnesty - Tuesday 17 November, 2015
# Paris Attacks
# Paris Attacks
Obama has criticised “shameful” calls to screen the refugees based on their religion.
# amnesty - Friday 28 August, 2015
# India
# India
They are aged just 15 and 23 years old.
# amnesty - Sunday 9 August, 2015
# 8th Amendment
# 8th Amendment
A recent survey shows most people in Ireland want the grounds for legal access to abortion to be widened.
# amnesty - Monday 15 June, 2015
# Questions
# Questions
Last week Amnesty International called for a more liberal abortion regime in Ireland.
# amnesty - Tuesday 9 June, 2015
# She Is Not A Criminal
# She Is Not A Criminal
“One woman told us how she was calculating how to throw herself in front of a truck or which bridge to jump off.”
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