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2010-03-12: Headlines

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Attack on Pakistani humanitarian workers 'major setback' to human rights 2010-03-12

  Insurgent groups in Pakistan must stop targeting humanitarian agencies that are trying to provide assistance to the country's poor, said Amnesty International after six NGO workers were killed in the country's northwest region.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: USA: Amnesty International Calls on President Obama to Establish 2010-03-12

  Amnesty International called on President Obama today to quickly establish an Office of Maternal Health to lead government action to reduce soaring pregnancy-related complications and maternal deaths nationwide.  The human rights organization said the government must take immediate steps to stop the loss of two to three women every day and reduce the risk of complications that now affect one-third of all pregnant women ? 1.7 million women a year.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: USA urged to confront shocking maternal mortality rate 2010-03-12

  Amnesty International today called on US President Barack Obama to tackle soaring rates of maternal mortality and pregnancy-related complications that particularly affect minorities and those living in poverty

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Egyptian man executed amid questions over murder conviction 2010-03-12

  An Egyptian man, who may have been wrongfully convicted of murder, was hanged in Cairo on Wednesday morning, Amnesty International has learned.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Kenya: Investigation into alleged police killings must be impartial 2010-03-12

  Amnesty International has called for the promised investigation into the alleged killing by Kenyan police of seven men to be impartial, independent and for the results to be made public

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Egypt must halt execution of man accused of murder 2010-03-12
• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Kenyan investigation into alleged police killings must be impartial 2010-03-12

  Amnesty International has called for the promised investigation into the alleged killing by Kenyan police of seven men to be impartial, independent and for the results to be made public.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Gambia: Amnesty International Says Gambia Must Charge or Release Detainees 2010-03-12

  Amnesty International today calls on the Gambian government to immediately charge or release all former government officials detained during a wave of arrests over the past week.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Gambia: Detainees must be charged or released 2010-03-12

  Amnesty International today calls on the Gambian government to immediately charge or release all former government officials detained during a wave of arrests over the past week

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Palestinian journalists targeted 2010-03-12

  Amnesty International calls on the Palestinian and Israeli authorities to release all journalists who are being detained for carrying out their legitimate professional activities, amid continuing harassment of media workers in the region.

2010-03-11: Headlines

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: USA: Amnesty International Says DOS Country Reports Need to Be More Comprehensive 2010-03-11

  Human rights organization welcomes expanded reporting on discrimination and press freedom, but says that reports fail to provide a comprehensive assessment of economic, | social, and cultural rights.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Sri Lanka urged to end witch hunt against the media and NGOs 2010-03-11

  The Sri Lankan government should end its harassment of journalists and activists and take steps against those making threats, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a joint statement.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Egypt: Halt execution of man accused of murder 2010-03-11

  Amnesty International has made an urgent personal appeal to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to prevent the execution of a man who is believed to have been wrongly convicted of murder and whose co-accused was executed on Wednesday

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Italian authorities urged to stop forced evictions of Roma 2010-03-11

  We always dream that our children will have a house to live in, so they will not be called "gypsies"Elpida, a Macedonian Roma, mother of six, who came to Italy in 1991 with her husband

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Iranian football journalist released after hunger strike 2010-03-11

  Amnesty International has welcomed the release of an Iranian football journalist who was detained for publishing posters supporting an Iranian-Azerbaijani football team.

2010-03-10: Headlines

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Human Rights Defenders Receive the International Women of Courage Award 2010-03-10

  Three women, whose courageous efforts to defend human rights were highlighted by Amnesty International, were honored today by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the annual International Women of Courage Award Ceremony.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Myanmar opposition must be free to fight elections 2010-03-10

  A new law bars all political prisoners, including detained Nobel Peace-prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, from belonging to a political party.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Israel urged to stop settlement expansion in East Jerusalem 2010-03-10

  Amnesty International urges Israel to cease constructing illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories after a plan to build 1,600 new homes is approved.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Azerbaijani bloggers lose appeal against fabricated charges 2010-03-10

  Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli have been sentenced to two and two and a half years respectively after they posted a video critical of the government on YouTube.

2010-03-09: Headlines

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Egypt releases blogger facing trial by military court 2010-03-09

  Ahmed Mostafa was facing jail after he after he published a post alleging nepotism within the armed forces.

• Amnesty USA: News Releases: Slovakia plans to remove Romani children from their families 2010-03-09

  Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced a proposal to take the children from the settlements where they live and place them in boarding schools.