HAVANA: Police have arrested dissidents across Cuba to prevent protests following the death by self-starvation of Orlando Zapata, which has drawn international condemnation. Mr Zapata, an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience in jail since 2003, died on Tuesday after an 85-day hunger strike protesting prison conditions. He was 42.
HAVANA: Police have arrested dissidents across Cuba to prevent protests following the death by self-starvation of Orlando Zapata, which has drawn international condemnation. Mr Zapata, an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience in jail since 2003, died on Tuesday after an 85-day hunger strike protesting prison conditions. He was 42.
Buenos Aires/London – Amnesty International (AI) Wednesday called for change in Cuba and a probe of the death of a Cuban dissident who had been on hunger strike for 83 days. Amnesty International has urged Cuban President Raul Castro to immediately …
Tens of thousands of children in Haiti — most of them girls — are working as domestic servants in conditions that amount to slavery, Amnesty International said in a briefing Tuesday, ahead of Universal Children?s Day (Friday, Nov. 20). The human rights organization is launching a campaign to press the government of Haiti to protect child workers from abuse and exploitation.
Authorities in Haiti must enact legislation to protect children working as domestic help in conditions that amount to slavery, said Amnesty International ahead of Universal Children’s Day. Amnesty International launched a campaign on Wednesday to press the government in Haiti to enact measures to protect child domestic workers from abuse, ill-treatment and exploitation. Many Haitian families …
The Dominican parliament has voted in favour of constitutional changes that could lead to a total ban on abortions, a move Amnesty International says will put women and girls at risk and increase maternal deaths. Approved by a majority vote of 128 to 34, Article 30 would introduce inviolability of life from “conception to death”. “Dominican Parliamentarians have delivered a huge blow to the …
London, Sep 15 : Amnesty International (AI) has warned that the proposed changes to the Dominican Republic’s constitution could lead to a ban on abortions that would put ‘the lives of women and girls at risk’.
Proposed changes to the constitution of the Dominican Republic could lead to a ban on abortions, putting the lives of women and girls at risk and potentially increasing maternal deaths in the country, Amnesty International has warned. Article 30 of the constitution would introduce the inviolability of life from “conception to death” under the proposal. It is widely acknowledged that this will …