On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Pakistan's Supreme Court was due to hear the cases of 485 individuals – all victims of enforced disappearance over the past six year
Despite consistent reports of torture and other ill-treatment by Afghanistan's intelligence service, members of the NATO-led forces continue to hand detainees over to
Arrests of members of the political opposition continued in Pakistan over the weekend as the government changed the law to make it easier to crack down on their oppone
Mass arrests of opposition activists in Pakistan have increased in
scale to such a degree that it's reported that there are no places left
in jails to hold them.
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
