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Kate Allen

Kate Allen is the Director of Amnesty International UK. She fronts Amnesty’s campaigns which demand respect for women’s rights, stronger restrictions on the arms trade, the release of all prisoners of conscience, and an end to torture and the death penalty.

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999 call on Brussels sprouts prompt warning on misusing emergency line

The death chamber at a Georgia correctional facility

Global executions are falling, but human rights abuse continues

A new housing project in the West Bank settlement of Naale, 1 January

Beware travel agents advertising homes in illegal Israeli settlements

A Syrian family run in a forest in Macedonia after illegally crossing Greek-Macedonian border near the city of Gevgelija. Some 50,000 people, many of them fleeing the war in Syria, have been stranded in Greece since the closure of the migrant route through the Balkans in February

The world turns a blind eye to refugees by calling them terrorists