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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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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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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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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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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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"This is where I'm going to be when I die". Children facing life imprisonment without the possibility of release in the USA
More than 2,500 people in the USA are serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release for crimes committed when they were younger than 18 years old, in violation of international human rights law. This report highlights the case
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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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Mexico: Briefing to the UN Committee on the elimination of discrimination against women
Amnesty International's submission to the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee), in advance of its examination of the combined seventh and eighth periodic report of Mexico. This briefing reflects
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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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This is what we demand. Justice! Impunity for sexual violence against women in Colombia's armed conflict
Sexual violence is endemic to Colombia’s long-running armed conflict, now in its fifth decade. Colombia’s security forces, paramilitaries and guerrilla groups have all targeted women and girls to exploit them as sexual slaves, to wreak revenge on their ad