Salil Shetty

Type: Person

Name: Salil Shetty

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 14 reports

Refugee crisis ignored

London - Amnesty International has expressed its disappointment at the international community's failure to deal with Africa's refugees.The international NGO has also raised some tough questions for officials in Africa.Continued instability in the DRC ... [Published ENCA - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Refugees, Crisis, Police Brutality

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 2 reports

Major rights group blasts growing US reliance on assassination drones

font size decrease font size increase font sizeMajor human rights group Amnesty International (AI) has blasted the US for its growing use of assassination drones as part of the Obama administration’s targeted-killing bid in Muslim nations abroad, ... [Published IRIB World Service - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Drone, Assassination, Legitimacy, Obama Administration

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

TASER International Incorporated

Amnesty International protests US drone killings

Amnesty International says the U.S. drone policy is shrouded in secrecy but the killings appear to amount to extrajudicial executions that violate international rights laws. In its report published Wednesday, Amnesty said "available information, limited ... [Published Digital Journal - 5 hours ago]

Entities: TASER International Incorporated, Drone, Amnesty International

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Amnesty International

Extrajudicial killings of 30 Bangladeshis so far this year: Amnesty International

Bangladesh security forces perpetrated at least 30 extra-judicial killings and 10 forced disappearances and carried out widespread torture in 2012, according to the human rights organisation Amnesty International.It yesterday launched an assessment of ... [Published Asia News Network - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Amnesty International, Ilias Ali, Human Rights

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Report: Crisis stoking anti-migrant bias in Europe

A top human rights group is warning that the plight of refugees and migrants fleeing wars and economic hardship is worsening in Europe as financial turmoil and austerity stokes bias against foreigners.In its annual global report on human rights, Amnesty ... [Published Jakarta Post - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Crisis, Amnesty International, Salil Shetty, Human Rights, Italy

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Amnesty condemns abuse 'inaction'

Amnesty International has accused governments of using state sovereignty as an "excuse" for failing to intervene in emergencies such as in Syria.In its annual report, the human rights group also blames world leaders for prioritising immigration control ... [Published BBC - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Condemnation, Abuse, Torture, Human Rights Violations

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Sushma Swaraj

16 Indians among World's '500 Powerful People'

Sunil Prabhu:Mumbai mayor Sunil Prabhu makes it to the list too. Prabhu started off his career in 1992 as a personal assistant to a senior Shiv Sena leader till 1997. He then got a chance to fight the civic elections from Aarey Colony in 1997 and subsequently, ... [Published Silicon India - May 07 2013]

Entities: Powerful, Sushma Swaraj, Unni Karunakara, Research And Analysis Wing, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Mumbai mayor Sunil Prabhu among 500 most powerful people in the world

What can be considered as a feather in the city's first resident's cap, mayor Sunil Prabhu has managed to figure amongst 500 powerful people in a list published by the magazine Foregin Policy.What can be considered as a feather in the city’s first resident’s ... [Published DNA India - May 04 2013]

Entities: Powerful, Mumbai, Sheila Dixit, Salil Shetty, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

George W. Bush cancels Europe trip amid calls for his arrest

Will George W. Bush set foot in Europe again in his lifetime?A planned trip by Bush to speak at the Switzerland-based United Israel Appeal later this week has been canceled after several human rights groups called for Swiss authorities to arrest Bush ... [Published Current TV - May 02 2013]

Entities: George W Bush, Salil Shetty, Torture, Center for Constitutional Rights, Arrests

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 6 reports

Foreign Policy Magazine Names Manmohan, Sonia Among 500 Powerful People

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi are among 16 Indians who have found a place in the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine's list of the 500 most powerful people on the planet. Apart from them, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, ... [Published India-West - May 01 2013]

Entities: Foreign Policy, Powerful, Research And Analysis Wing, Unni Karunakara

First reported Apr 13 2013 - Updated Apr 13 2013 - 3 reports

Executions on the rise as India walks away from nine-year moratorium

India's Supreme Court has rejected a plea for clemency from convicted terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, upholding a death penalty awarded against him, and continuing a trend of re-adopting state executions.India had a de facto moratorium on the death ... [Published Myall Coast Nota - Apr 13 2013]

Entities: Capital Punishment, India, Death Row

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

Despite Setbacks, a Death Penalty-Fre...

Despite some disappointing setbacks in 2012, the global trend towards ending the death penalty continued, Amnesty International found in its . 2012 saw the resumption of executions in several countries that had not used the death penalty in some time, ... [Published AllAfrica.com - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Capital Punishment, Amnesty International, Salil Shetty, Saudi Arabia

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Own the Goals: What the Millennium Development ... [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - Feb 21 2013] For more than a decade, the Millennium Development Goals -- a set of time-bound targets agreed on by heads of state in 2000 -- have unified, galvanized, and expanded efforts to help the world's poorest people. The overarching vision of cutting the amount ...
Amnesty Says Death Penalty No Answer to Rape [Published WSJ.com: India Real Time - Dec 24 2012] The Wall Street Journal’s India Real Time talked to Salil Shetty, secretary-general of Amnesty International, about human rights in the country during 2012. ...