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Central American migrants run to catch the train north, Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, Mexico, 28 June 2009.
Amnesty International has released its annual report on the state of the world(***)s human rights, highlighting cases of torture, war crimes and rights abuses around the world. In Veracruz, Mexico, Central American migrants, pictured here, run to catch the train north, but instances of robbery, beatings, rape, and extortion are among the potential perils of the trip. [Amnesty International]
Published On 27 May 201027 May 2010
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Somali refugees walk through the smoke from burning piles of garbage in Hagadera camp, Kenya,
In Hagadera camp, Kenya, Somali refugees walk through the smoke from burning piles of garbage. The three camps at Dadaab, which were designed for 90,000 people, now have a population of about 250,000 Somali civilians, making it one of the largest and most congested refugee sites in the world. [Amnesty International]
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A man sits outside his home in Gunhill informal settlement near the affluent suburb of Gunhill in Harare,
Amnesty also highlighted conditions for residents of Harare, Zimbabwe, including this man, sitting outside his home in Gunhill informal settlement near the affluent suburb of Gunhill. The majority of residents were victims of a 2005 programme of mass forced evictions in which an estimated 700,000 people lost their homes, livelihoods or both. Many continue to survive without adequate shelter in deplorable conditions. [Amnesty International]
Asylum seekers waiting to submit their asylum applications at the entrance of the Political Asylum Department of the Aliens Directorate, Headquarters of Hellenic Police, in Petrou Ralli, Athens, 1 June 2009.
The human rights group also documented the situation of asylum seekers waiting to submit their asylum applications at the entrance of the Political Asylum Department of the Aliens Directorate, in Athens, Greece. [Amnesty International]
Women and children escape the fighting in Maidan, north-west Pakistan, 27 April 2009. Conflict between the Pakistani Taleban and government security forces displaced more than 2 million people.
Amnesty cited the conflict in Pakistan(***)s northwest as another site of rights abuses. Here, women and children escape the fighting in northwest Pakistan(***)s Maidan. Fighting between the Pakistani Taliban and government security forces has displaced more than two million people. [Amnesty International]
Immigration detainees at the Lenggeng Detention Centre, Malaysia, 23 July 2009.
The human rights group also highlighted conditions in Malaysia, where immigration detainees pictured here await their fate at the Lenggeng Detention Centre. [Amnesty International]
A Palestinian man by the rubble of his house, Gaza, January 2009, with a mourning tent in the background.
And in Gaza, Amnesty called attention to conditions of Palestinians affected by Israel(***)s offensive on the Strip, which reduced much of the coastal territory to rubble. [Amnesty International]
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