Post Tagged 'Amnesty International'

October 27, 2021

Amnesty International to withdraw from Hong Kong

London-based Amnesty International has succumbed to the pressures of Hong Kong’s wide-sweeping National Security Law (NSL), announcing on Oct. 25 its decisions to withdraw operations from the city. The human rights organization will close its two Hong Kong branches, citing fear of “restrictions of freedoms of expression.” Continue Reading...

August 12, 2015

Amnesty International Supports Legalized Prostitution; Trafficking Victims May Pay The Price

Amnesty International, the human-rights watchdog organization, voted Tuesday to support the decriminalization of “sex work” at its Dublin-based International Council Meeting. This was in spite of the fact that anti-human trafficking organizations around the globe pushed for just the opposite. Continue Reading...

May 08, 2014

Amnesty International: Release Nigerian Schoolgirls But Legalize Prostitution

Yesterday, Joe Carter wrote about Boko Haram, the terrorist group that has kidnapped hundreds of girls in Nigeria from the Christian school, and is now threatening to sell them into the sex trafficking trade. Continue Reading...