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Eastern Ukraine: Both sides responsible for indiscriminate attacks

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The killing of a schoolboy and an 18-year-old during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday highlights a larger pattern of indiscriminate attacks which could amount to war crimes, Amnesty International said today. 

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UK government 'routinely' spies on lawyers

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Legal policies which allow UK intelligence agencies to access confidential privileged communications between lawyers and clients were disclosed in court today in a claim brought by Amnesty International and a Libyan national.

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Dominican Republic: Withdrawal from top regional human rights court would put rights at risk

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The appalling ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court that could to lead to the country’s withdrawal from the Inter American Court of Human Rights would, if supported by the government, deprive hundreds of thousands of survivors of human rights abuses from any hope of justice

Livewire – Amnesty International's blog

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Stoking the fire of Iraq’s sectarian conflict

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