News & Updates

Truce reduces fighting in Iraq

31 March 2008

Fighting between government forces and the Mahdi Army in Basra is reported to have ended after Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to stop fighting Iraqi security f

Two more migrants killed at Egypt/Israel border

28 March 2008

Two men believed to be from Côte d'Ivoire were shot dead by Egyptian security forces while trying to cross into Israel on Thursday.

10,000 reach out for Kenya

28 March 2008

Amnesty International delivered over 10,000 petitions to Kenyan leaders President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga on Thursday.

The missing children of El Salvador

28 March 2008

Sixteen years after the end of El Salvador's civil war, the whereabouts of hundreds of children who disappeared during the conflict remain unknown.

Fighting intensifies in Basra

28 March 2008

The US military launched air strikes in Basra on Friday for the first time since the Iraqi authorities began their crackdown on the Mahdi Army, followers of the Shi&

Egyptian newspaper editor sentenced to six months

27 March 2008

The editor of an Egyptian daily newspaper was been sentenced to six months in prison on Wednesday for writing about the health of the President.

Iraq fighting puts civilians at risk

26 March 2008

At least 12 people are reported to have been killed in fighting between Iraqi government forces and armed militia in Basra.

Tibet off the Human Rights Council's agenda

26 March 2008

Discussion of the situation in Tibet was stifled at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe opposition suffer pre-election harassment

26 March 2008

Opposition groups in Zimbabwe are suffering harassment, intimidation and discrimination in the run-up to national elections on 29 March.