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Les Manquements des Autorités Françaises aux Devoirs Élémentaires de Respecter, Protéger et Mettre en œuvre les Droits des Mineur.e.s Isolé.e.s Étranger.e.s en Danger
A l’heure où des responsables politiques remettent ouvertement en cause l’accueil ou la prise en charge des mineur.e.s isolé.e.s étranger.e.s, nous faisons état des violations des droits que ces enfants subissent aux frontières françaises. La France doit
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Guidelines for African States to Protect the Rights of Women and Girls During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Like all crises, the COVID-19 pandemic will have a distinct impact on women and girls that is both immediate and poses the risk of exacerbating pre-existing gender-based inequalities. Women and girls will be disproportionately affected and, unless their r
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Guidelines for Protecting the Rights of Women and Girls During the COVID-19 Pandemic
All measures taken to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic must ensure and uphold human rights. States should also ensure that their response is gender-sensitive by including approaches that guarantee the rights of women and girls to live free from violence a
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Without my Family: The impact of family separation on child refugees in the UK
Every child should be able to live safely with their family. But when disaster strikes, children may need to seek safety from conflict or persecution, leaving their families behind. A few of these children find safety in the UK – where unfair immigration
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"No One Can Protect Us": War crimes and abuses in Myanmar's Rakhine state
On January 2019 the Arakan Army, an ethnic Rakhine armed group, launched coordinated attacks on police posts in the Northern Rakhine State, killing and injuring several police officers. The attacks resulted in a drastic escalation of the already existing
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An Australian Checklist for Action: Preventing and responding to conflict-related humanitarian crises
Australia has an opportunity to bring its strengths and foreign policy priorities together with its position of regional leadership to more proactively and constructively prevent and respond to conflict-related humanitarian crises. The Checklist provides
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Shamed and Blamed: Pregnant girls' rights at risk in Sierra Leone
In April 2015, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Education, Science and Technology made official government policy an existing ban on visibly pregnant girls attending schools or taking exams. In addition to pregnancy testing practices that humiliate girls, thi
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Algeria: Comprehensive reforms needed to end sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls
In this report, Amnesty International investigates sexual and gender-based violence in Algeria. Both the context and current statistics are presented as well the legal system and the judicial measures in place to combat this type of violence. In 2014, the
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Becoming a human rights friendly school: A Guide for schools around the world
The Human Rights Friendly Schools project aims to empower young people and promote the active participation of all members of the school community in integrating human rights values and principles into all areas of school life. The project is founded on t
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Fleeing war, finding misery: The plight of the internally displaced in Afghanistan
About 400 people are displaced every day in Afghanistan. With the conflict intensifying in recent years, entire communities have fled their homes in search of greater security – and their numbers are rising. Tens of thousands of people have sought shelter
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"Eso es lo que nosotros exigimos: Que se haga justicia". Impunidad por actos de violencia sexual cometido contra mujeres en el conflicto armado de Colombia
This report is the result of two years of investigation by Amnesty International on the impunity for conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia’s armed conflict. Sexual violence is endemic to Colombia’s long-running armed conflict, now in its fifth deca
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Left Behind. The impact of Zimbabwe's Mass Forced Evictions on the Right to Education
Forced evictions drive poor people deeper into poverty and leave them more vulnerable to other human rights violations. This report looks at the long-term impact on the right to education since the Zimbabwean government's programme of mass forced eviction