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Amnesty International Sections, 2012 The Amnesty Canadian headquarters in Ottawa. Amnesty International is largely made up of voluntary members but retains a small number of paid professionals. In countries in which Amnesty International has a strong presence, members are organized as "sections". In 2019 there were 63 sections worldwide. [110]
The Council then extended martial law throughout the country, abolished the Parliament and the government, suspended the Constitution, and banned all political parties and trade unions. 1980 Liberian coup d'état : A military coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe overthrew the government led by President William Tolbert , ending 102 years of ...
List of terrorist incidents List of active rebel groups. List of rebel groups that control territory; List of designated terrorist organizations List of number of conflicts per year. List of most lethal battles in world history; Africa List of conflicts in Africa (Military history of Africa) List of modern conflicts in North Africa (Maghreb)
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...
The Amnesty poll, released on Human Rights Day, asked more than 10,000 people aged 18-25, in 22 countries across six continents, to pick up to five major issues from a list of 23.
Country Last execution date Name Crime Method D Afghanistan: 13 November 2024 [112] Mohammad Ayaz Asad murder: public firearm: D Bahrain: 27 July 2019 [113] Ali Mohammed al-Arab, Ahmad Issa al-Mulla and 1 unnamed man terrorism: firing squad: D Bangladesh: 27 July 2023 [114] Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin and Md Jahangir Alam murder: hanging: A Bhutan ...
The privileging of the Han people in ethnic minority areas outside of China proper, such as the Uyghur-majority Xinjiang and the central government's policy of settlement in Tibet, and the alleged erosion of indigenous religion, language and culture through repressive measures (such as the Han Bingtuan militia in Xinjiang) and sinicization have been likened to "cultural genocide" and apartheid ...
Amnesty (from Ancient Greek ἀμνηστία (amnēstía) 'forgetfulness, passing over') is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted."