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Austrian lower house passes headscarf ban for under-14s in schools

Austria's lower house of parliament passed the ban despite uncertainty over whether such legislation is unconstitutional, as a previous ban was ruled unconstitutional five years ago.

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A "Ceasefire in Gaza" banner hangs in the window of an Amnesty International store in Lund, Sweden, June 11, 2024; illustrative.

Murder, rape, and extermination: Hamas guilty of crimes against humanity, Amnesty charges

A massive banner has been unfurled at Hostages Square during the two-year rally with a direct appeal to President Trump: “It’s Now or Never”

IDF intercepts missile from Yemen, IDF reveals Hamas tunnels by Jordanian hospital

 Amnesty International activists in Sydney, Australia in 2011.

Amnesty calls for immediate release of hostages, but excludes Goldin, soldiers


UN nuclear watchdog warns on Ukraine plant; Russia shells several towns

The fighting over Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the south, occupied by Russia, has raised fears of disaster. * Clashes continue in south, east.

 A view shows a damaged administrative building of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Enerhodar, the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine in this handout picture released March 4, 2022.

Head of Amnesty's Ukraine office quits after group accuses Kyiv

Pokalchuk said Amnesty unwittingly "created material that sounded like support for Russian narratives of the invasion."

 The logo of Amnesty International is seen next to director of Mujeres En Linea Luisa Kislinger, during a news conference to announce the results of an investigation into humans rights abuses committed in Venezuela during protests against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela February 20, 2

Over 2,000 schools, 500 cultural sites destroyed in Ukraine - Ukraine Defense Ministry

5,024 Ukrainian civilians had been killed and 6,250 had been injured since the war began.

 The Ukrainian national flag is seen in front of a school which, according to local residents, was on fire after shelling, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine February 28, 2022.

Amnesty International accuses Ukraine of basing troops in residential areas

Amnesty workers say they witnessed Ukrainian forces "establishing bases and operating weapons systems" in some populated residential areas.

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Vilifying Israel is now a dangerous publicity stunt -opinion

Amnesty’s apartheid social media, merch sale and street renaming could be dismissed as just a attention-seeking campaign, only it speaks to a broader effort to mainstream the vilification of Israel.

 COPIES OF Amnesty International’s report titled ‘Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians’ are placed on display at a press conference at a hotel in east Jerusalem, earlier this year

Amnesty UK to release 'end Israeli apartheid' merch line

“We expect the t-shirts and other End Israeli Apartheid campaign products to be popular," the NGO's Crisis Response Manager told The Jerusalem Post.

 The logo of Amnesty International is seen next to director of Mujeres En Linea Luisa Kislinger, during a news conference to announce the results of an investigation into humans rights abuses committed in Venezuela during protests against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela February 20, 2

'Calling Israel 'apartheid' is plain antisemitic' - VP of European Parliament

At a conference by the Combat Antisemitism Movement. the WZO and NGO Monitor, world leaders discussed the misappropriation of the term "apartheid" and its use against Israel.

 Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold candles during a protest in front of Catalan Government in Sant Jaume quarter in central Barcelona January 16, 2009 against Israel's attacks on Gaza. The sign reads: "Boycott Israel, boycott apartheid".

Palestinian teen stabber a victim of 'Israeli apartheid,' justice system - Amnesty

Ahmad Manasrah, 20, "lost his childhood in Israel's prison system," said Amnesty International, after going on a stabbing rampage in 2015.

13-year-old east Jerusalem boy who carried out stabbing attack in Pisgat Ze'ev hospitalized at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem‏

Pro-Iran professor slips up on his ‘crimes against humanity’ in interview

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, a professor of Islamic Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio called the regime-sanctioned massacre of 5,000 Iranians “little details.”

Jafar Mahallati speaks at TEDxTehran

PA pushing for UN apartheid committee on Israel, Amnesty head says

"We need to use all possible tools to bring pressure so that the systems of oppression and domination in Israel are disestablished."

 A placard depicting former South African President Nelson Mandela hangs on a barbed wire during clashes with Palestinians and Israeli security forces, near Ramallah December 6, 2013.