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A recent report from Amnesty International reveals that undocumented women in France face significant barriers when reporting sexual violence, often encountering hostility from the institutions meant to help them. French NGOs say law enforcement has increasingly threatened migrants with deportation, even going so far as putting them in detention centres…

Migrant women who report sexual violence in France are often confronted with a “double violence” when dealing with authorities, Amnesty International said in a report, warning that they risk being ignored, arrested or even deported when seeking protection.

The convictions of two Hong Kong journalists who led a now-shuttered online news outlet have deepened concerns of media groups and foreign governments over the city’s press freedom

Burundi's President President Evariste Ndayishimiye continues to rule with an unrelenting "wave of repression" despite hopes of change when he took office four years ago, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.

‘People of colour have faced a rowback on their civil and political rights over the past five years,’ UK’s leading racial justice thinktank says

Ulrike Schmidt says police have not investigated incident in Walthamstow, which was interrupted by passersby

Reporters cautiously optimistic as interim government takes over after years of intimidation and censorship

Dsta’hyl, a hereditary chief of the Wet’suwet’en Nation of northern British Columbia, recently became the first person in Canada to be named a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International. The organization defines prisoner of conscience as “any person imprisoned or otherwise physically restricted (for example, through house arrest), solely because…