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Video: Obama's first 100 days - 20 January 2009

We are not expecting the impossible from President Obama's first 100 days in office. Watch this video and take action.

Obama's first 100 days - 15 January 2009

We are not expecting the impossible from President Obama's first 100 days in office. Watch this video and take action.

Leading rights groups urge Obama to stop Guantánamo proceedings against child soldiers - 12 January 2009

Five leading human rights and civil liberties groups delivered a letter to President-elect Barack Obama on January 12, 2009, urging him to suspend the Guantánam

President-elect Obama urged to halt Guantánamo trial - 12 January 2009

Barack Obama is being urged to back up his pledge to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay by calling a halt to a military commission trial scheduled

President-elect Barack Obama: set a date to close Guantánamo - 9 January 2009

Activists demand the closure of Guantánamo on the seventh anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to the US detention facility in Cuba.

USA: Guantánamo anniversary – Amnesty International’s events across the world - 8 January 2009

In the context of the 7th anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International’s memb

USA: Amnesty International asks Barack Obama to set date for closing Guantánamo - 9 January 2009

On the eve of the seventh anniversary of the first transfers to the US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay, Amnesty International is calling on President-elect B

Guantánamo anniversary: Amnesty International launches media resource centre - 5 January 2009

Amnesty International is publishing a media resource centre with up-to-date information, facts and figures, analysis and stories related to the US detention centre in

Detainees held by USA at risk if transferred to Iraqi custody - 5 January 2009

The agreement signed between the US President and the Prime Minister of Iraq on 14 December 2008 opens the way for the transfer of thousands of detainees from US to

Pentagon preparing plan to close Guantánamo - 22 December 2008

The Pentagon is working on a plan to close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, according to a US Department of Defense official.