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Tuesday 29 September 2020
Fine Gael and Tánaiste Simon Coveney have repeatedly outlined their opposition to the Bill.
Amnesty UK director Kate Allen has written to Premier League chief executive Richard Masters.
Inmates have been on hunger strike for more than six weeks, Amnesty International has said.
Amnesty International say the coalition has only admitted to around 10% of the deaths.
Laws in Northern Ireland mean that women cannot access an abortion unless there is a serious risk to their life.
The US launched an effort to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through US immigration courts.
Amnesty International is calling for a total ban on the development, production and use of fully autonomous weapon systems.
Strict new Covid-19 measures have been announced for the two counties – here’s what you need to know.
Chechen authorities immediately denied the claims.
The study found that an abusive or problematic tweet was sent to the women in the study every 30 seconds on average.
A new report said some leaders are using “bully tactics” to “demonise and persecute” vulnerable people.
Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan have signed the letter ahead of the reading of a bill that would decriminalise abortion across the UK.
The group revoked the award in light of Suu Kyi’s “betrayal of the values she once stood for”.
Amnesty International reports that ten men have been arrested since last week’s announcement.
The donation was for Amnesty’s ‘My Body, My Rights’ campaign which sought a referendum on the Eighth Amendment.
Only this week it was removed from another wall in the area.
An Amnesty International report has expressed concern about how women and children are sexually exploited.
Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.
Health Minister Simon Harris stopped by Moore Street today to launch the ‘It’s Time to Talk’ referendum campaign.
The money was donated to the group in order to fund activities around the Eighth Amendment.
Sipo has ordered Amnesty to return the €137,000 donation it received from Open Society.
A new Amnesty International report has said Rohingya treatment amounts to apartheid.
Women in eight different countries reported feeling anxious, less confident and unable to sleep after receiving abuse online.
The Citizens’ Assembly had an almost two-thirds majority vote (64%) for access to abortion on request at least in early pregnancy.
72.6% of people aged between 18 and 35 would welcome refugees into their countries, according to a World Economic Foundation survey.
People accused of supporting Boko Haram are being brutally tortured in Cameroon.
Italy has recently threatened to close its ports to foreign ships in an effort to force the EU to react.
Halawa has been imprisoned in the Egyptian capital for 1,418 days – nearly four years.
Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.
Liu Xiaobo was sentenced in 2009 for “subversion” after spearheading a bold petition for democratic reforms.
An audit received by Amnesty International found failings in how equipment was logged and monitored.
Amnesty has attacked “the cynical use of ‘us vs. them’ narrative”.
The Syrian president also accused the UN of being biased because of American, French and British influence.
Amnesty says their new report reveals a “hidden, monstrous campaign” at Saydnaya prison.
The Amnesty report called it a “murderous war on the poor”.
The TDs will be discussing the young man’s incarceration when they arrive tomorrow.
Judge Timothy Lucey also warned gardaí to be careful about what they put in their applications as people had been murdered for political reasons.
Amnesty International has released a new report claiming to offer testimonies of abuse and ill-treatment by Italian authorities which “may amount to torture”.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where abortion is illegal, except where continuing a pregnancy would cause a serious risk to the mother’s health.
The 65-year-old was reportedly kept in solitary confinement throughout her ordeal.
Many people witnessed prisoners dying in custody and some described being held in cells alongside dead bodies.
ENGLAND HAS INTRODUCED new rules that could see people receive fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to self-isolate.
This means that anyone who has tested positive or has been a close contact of a Covid-19 case and fails to quarantine could receive a hefty penalty.
There have been some calls for a similar system here too, to prevent the spread of the virus and to stop any flouting of rules.
So today we want to know: Should people who fail to self-isolate be fined?
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