29 September 2008
Child soldiers are still being recruited to fight in the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is also continuing physical and sexual abuse of women and children in the conflict.
26 September 2008
Some 150,000 Cambodians live at risk of being forcibly evicted in the
wake of land disputes, land grabbing and agro-industrial and urban
redevelopment projects in 2008.
17 September 2008
Every year,
more than 300,000 people are killed with conventional weapons. Millions more
are injured, abused, forcibly displaced and bereaved as a result of armed
violence.
4 September 2008
As the United Nations General Assembly conducts the first major
review of its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, an Amnesty
International report shows how governments have so far failed to uphold
the Strategy's human rights standards.
1 August 2008
Thousands of Mexican women who face violence in their homes are being put at risk of further abuse by a justice system that often fails to take their safety seriously.
