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The EU training mission to Mali launched this week. As the Malian Army, known for human rights abuses, is strengthened, rights groups call for oversight.

However powerful the CCP may seem, the Chinese people will ultimately decide China’s future course.

Amnesty International called on the Chinese regime to clarify the charges against detained Taiwanese man Chung Ting-pang.

A top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official who oversees the restive Xinjiang region vowed to deal with Uyghur protests with “iron fists.”

Libya will hold its first free elections Friday, with thousands of candidates seeking election to the country’s General National Congress.

Amnesty International joined forces with 19 human rights groups to widen the scope of the constitutional convention.

Amnesty International is urgently appealing for the release of two Falun Gong practitioners, Wang Xiaodong and Wang Junling, who have recently been detained by the Chinese authorities and are now at risk of torture and ill-treatment.

It has been a tumultuous, inspiring, and in some ways disappointing year for human rights according to two rights reports released this week.

Even through Bahrain is slated to hold a Formula 1 race, Amnesty International is spotlighting the international and domestic criticism of the Bahrain government with regard to human rights issues.

Women living in communities in the disputed border region between India and Pakistan have been suffering for decades, though their stories often go unheard amid the clatter of diplomacy and the ongoing militancy in the region.

Before Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny’s recent trip to China, Falun Gong practitioners held a rally outside government buildings where they asked him to demand an end to the persecution of Falun Gong when he met the leaders in China.

Amnesty International said on Tuesday that there was an upswing in state-mandated executions 2011.

A Falun Gong adherent imprisoned in China’s freezing north is feared by family to be close to death, having endured torture and hunger strikes since he was jailed in March 2011.

Two women staff members employed by Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is on the run from Iraqi authorities, were detained by security forces.

Libya said it is taking steps to control prisons throughout the country after allegations of torture emerged.

Thousands of Haitians living in camps have been forcefully evicted by local authorities and face other human rights abuses, Amnesty International said on January 12.

Amjad told New York-based HRW that his commander, Brig. Gen. Ramadan Ramadan, normally asked his subordinates to save their ammunition, but this time was different, getting an order to “Use heavy shooting. Nobody will ask you to explain.”

There has been a dramatic rise in executions related to drug offenses in Iran, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Australian High Court decision on refugees a landmark decision says Amnesty International New Zealand.