Amnesty International has obtained disturbing first-hand accounts from
Burmese monks who witnessed the brutal attack on a monastic training
school on 25 September.
"The freedom of the press and the freedom of journalists to do their job are in everyone's best interest," writes the President of the International Federati
During the conflict between 1991 and 2002, it is estimated that a third of all
women and girls in Sierra Leone were subjected to sexual violence. Many of these
A former prisoner of conscience has thanked Amnesty International for helping secure her release from jail by donating a journalism award to the organization.
On 24 October 2007, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent 12 of the last
18 years under detention. She may be the best known of Myanmar's
prisoners of conscience, but
