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Video - Riga Pride 2008

31 May 2008

Amnesty International activists from around 30 countries gathering in Latvia to join Riga Pride 2008 in sol

Cluster munitions treaty agreed in Dublin

30 May 2008

110 states have agreed a provisional text for a historic new Convention on Cluster Munitions, which is a treaty to ban the "Use, Production and Transfer of Clus

Tiananmen activists must be released

30 May 2008

Wednesday 4 June 2008 marks the nineteenth anniversary of the Chinese government's crackdown on the pro-democracy demonstrations in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Sq

Sixty years of human rights failure – governments must apologize and act now

27 May 2008

Amnesty International has challenged world leaders to apologize for six decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements.

Video: Sixty years of human rights failure

27 May 2008

Amnesty International has challenged world leaders to apologize for six decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements.

Darfur crisis reaches Sudanese capital

23 May 2008

Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the Sudanese security forces’ crackdown following the incursion into Khartoum, by an armed group.

South Africa must protect those at risk of "xenophobic" attack

23 May 2008

Amnesty International has called on the South African government to protect the human rights of people at risk of violent attacks and displacement from their homes on

World must act on food crisis

22 May 2008

Statement by Amnesty International to the United Nation Human Rights Council’s first thematic special session on the world food crisis.

Iran urged to overturn sentences against women activists

20 May 2008

Amnesty International has urged the Head of the Judiciary in Iran to ensure that appeals hearings against the recent convictions and sentences of six women’s ri

Asian leaders urged to take further action on Myanmar

19 May 2008

In an open letter, Amnesty International's Secretary General has called on ASEAN leaders to take urgent action to prevent further human rights violations in Myanmar.

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