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Amnesty publishes review of human rights in 2018

Women activists around the world have been at the forefront of the battle for human rights in 2018, Amnesty International said today as it launched its review on the state of human rights over the past year.

“What is needed more than ever is a human-rights based, compassionate response to refugees’ needs, based on global responsibility sharing not responsibility shirking.”

Reduction in number of detah sentencces and executions globally but at least 993 executions still carried out in 23 countries in 2017.

Amnesty launches new campaign aimed at better protecting women from online abuse.

Amnesty International publishes State of the World’s Human Rights 2017-18 report