Appeals for action

Iran must recognize the right to peaceful protest

23 June 2009

Amnesty International calls on the Iranian authorities to allow peaceful demonstrations, to exercise restraint in the policing of any further demonstrations, to stop u

Demand dignity for slum dwellers in Nairobi

9 June 2009

More than half of Nairobi’s population – some two million people – live without adequate access to water, hospitals, schools and other essential publ

Support parents and survivors of the Sichuan earthquake

11 May 2009

One year ago, on 12 May 2008, a devastating earthquake measuring an 8.0 magnitude hit Wenchuan county, in China's southwestern Sichuan province.

Romani children denied proper education in Slovakia

24 April 2009

Every child has the right to education without discrimination. In Slovakia, huge numbers of Romani children are denied this right.

Protect peaceful Moldovan protesters from police ill-treatment

15 April 2009

Hundreds of people have been detained in Moldova after the country's authorities blamed them for the rioting that followed a peaceful protest.

End institutional racism in the Austrian criminal justice system

9 April 2009

Institutional racism in the Austrian police and judicial organs is resulting in their failure to provide the same quality of service to all persons.

CIA crimes and Polish complicity?: transparency and accountability needed

3 April 2009

Sign the petition for a full and transparent investigation into crimes alleged in context of secret CIA detention

Alleged abuses in the context of policing demonstrations in Greece

30 March 2009

Greek police shot and killed 15-year-old Alexandros-Andreas (Alexis) Gregoropoulos in Athens on 6 December 2008.

Stop executions in Belarus

23 March 2009

Belarus is the last country in Europe and in the former Soviet Union that still carries out executions.

Twenty years on, still no inquiry into Patrick Finucane's death

11 February 2009

The prominent civil rights lawyer, was shot dead in front of his wife and children at his home in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 12 February 1989.