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Men who were rescued off the Libyan coast on Friday, watch the city of Messina from the deck of the Open Arms rescue vessel as the ship enters the port located on the island of Sicily, Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

Rights groups to Italy: Don’t renew migrant deal with Libya

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 photo refugees and migrants aboard an overcrowded dinghy as they cross the Aegean Sea, from Turkey, that is seen in the background, to the coast of Lesbos island, Greece. Greek authorities have invited private contractors to bid on supplying a 2.7-kilometer-long (1.7 miles) floating barrier system aimed at stopping migrants from reaching the country's islands from the nearby coast of Turkey. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Rights group criticizes Greek sea barrier plan for migrants

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

A local resident struggles with riot police at the Fai Ming Estate, in Fanling district of Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, after the Hong Kong government announced it would requisition an unoccupied housing project to house quarantined patients of the new viral coronavirus illness. Residents took the streets on Sunday night to oppose the plan to house quarantined patients or medical workers in their neighbourhood, that is far from Hong Kong's busy business centres. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Amnesty International: Young across Asia challenging abuses

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter, center, shakes hands with the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, left, as they surrounded by security in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2019. Greece will block any European peace deal on Libya unless an agreement between the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli and Turkey on maritime borders is scrapped, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Thursday. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Libya’s rival military commander seeks support in Greece

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

In this Thursday Jan. 9, 2020 photo Polish Senate Speaker Tomasz Grodzki speaks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland. Following fall elections, Speaker Tomasz Grodzki, from the centrist opposition, has become the only politician with any real power to put up roadblocks to the populist ruling party as it seeks to exert full control of the judicial system. A prominent surgeon, Grodzki is using that role as much as he can, angering the government, which has been seeking to discredit him with claims he took bribes as a doctor. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish Senate speaker pushes back against bribe allegations

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

In this July 9, 2018, file photo, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir attends a ceremony for Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey. On Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, a Sudan court convicted al-Bashir of money laundering, sentences him to two years in a rehabilitation facility. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Year on, Amnesty urges Sudan deliver on protesters’ demands

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

Peace groups protest Saudi ship in Spanish port

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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, rainwater pools at a gas station attacked during protests over government-set gasoline prices in Tehran, Iran. Amnesty International says at least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces. The country has yet to release any nationwide statistics about the unrest last month. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

UN office: Iranian forces were ‘shooting to kill’ protesters

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, people walk past buildings that were burned during recent protests, in Shahriar, Iran, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran. Amnesty International says at least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces. The country has yet to release any nationwide statistics about the unrest last month. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran state TV says ‘rioters’ shot and killed amid protests

By Jon Gambell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2015, file photo people walk at the site of a car bomb attack next to a Shiite mosque in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen’s civil war has exacted an enormous toll on people with disabilities, who find themselves on the margins of society and excluded from badly needed humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Amnesty: Yemen’s disabled are neglected, and suffering

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, people walk past buildings that were burned during recent protests, in Shahriar, Iran, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran. Amnesty International says at least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces. The country has yet to release any nationwide statistics about the unrest last month. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Amnesty says at least 208 killed in Iran protests, crackdown

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Rights group: Afghans jailed after exposing pedophile ring

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A cyclist pushes his laden bike through smog, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. Amnesty International issues &quot;Urgent Action&quot; saying every person in Lahore at risk. Heavy smog has enveloped many cities of Punjab province, causing highway accidents and respiratory problems, and forcing many residents to stay home. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Rights group draws attention to heavy smog in Pakistan

By ZAHEER BABAR and MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Police detain a woman during anti-government protests in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Chile has been facing weeks of unrest, triggered by a relatively minor increase in subway fares. The protests have shaken a nation noted for economic stability over the past decades, which has seen steadily declining poverty despite persistent high rates of inequality. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Amnesty reports violations by Chile’s security forces

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Rights group: Islamist leader’s daughter tortured in prison

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In this Oct. 30, 2019, photo, the Oregon Investment Council conducts its monthly meeting in Tigard, Ore. In 2017, the council decided unanimously to invest $233 million of the state workers' pension fund in Novalpina Capital, a private equity fund, which later bought into Israeli spyware company NSO Group. Major international human rights groups said NSO Group's Pegasus spyware has been used by repressive governments against human rights defenders, dissidents and journalists. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Official: Oregon lags in socially conscious investing

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, and released by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, people walk past buildings which burned during protests that followed the authorities' decision to raise gasoline prices, in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, Iran. An article published Tuesday in the Keyhan hard-line newspaper in Iran is suggesting that those who led violent protests will be executed by hanging as the unrest continues. (Masoume Aliakbar/ISNA via AP)

Amnesty: At least 106 dead in protests, which Iran disputes

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Amnesty International, citing ‘credible reports,’ says it believes at least 106 people killed in Ira

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An anti-government protester crouches down during a clash with Iraqi security forces in central Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. The protests intensified Saturday afternoon as demonstrators tried to reach the three bridges, hours after being pushed back under clouds of tear gas from the Sinak bridge to the nearby Khilani square. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

UN mission in Iraq proposes roadmap for ending upheaval

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Rights group: Possible war crimes in fight for Libya capital

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press