Press releases
Thursday 26 February 2009
As US President Barack Obama announced the deployment of extra troops in Afghanistan and urged NATO allies to follow suit, Amnesty International has demanded that forc
Thursday 26 February 2009
Kyrgyzstan may be joining the list of countries that seriously restrict the space for human rights activities
Wednesday 25 February 2009
Amnesty International today urged the Guatemalan Congress to approve a law for a National Search Commission for the Disappeared as an essential step to implement the r
Wednesday 25 February 2009
The judgment issued today by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) finding three senior members of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) guilty of
Wednesday 25 February 2009
Amnesty International called on ASEAN member states to move human rights to the top of the agenda of the ASEAN summit, scheduled to take place this weekend in Thailand
Tuesday 24 February 2009
The Colombian security forces, paramilitaries and guerrilla groups are punishing those who refuse to be part of the conflict across Colombia, said Amnesty Internationa
Monday 23 February 2009
Both Israel and Hamas used weapons supplied from abroad to carry out attacks on civilians, Amnesty International said today as it released fresh evidence on the muniti
Monday 23 February 2009
Amnesty International is calling on authorities in Macao to put a halt to the National Security Bill because it has the potential for abuse to become law.
Thursday 19 February 2009
The investigation into the murder of human rights journalist Anna
Politkovskaya must continue with renewed vigour, Amnesty International
said today as a jury in a Mo
Wednesday 18 February 2009
Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the possible consequences
of today's decision by the Law Lords, the UK's highest court, that
authorizes the UK governme
