Press releases
Wednesday 14 January 2009
A full arms embargo on all parties involved in the Gaza conflict is urgently needed to prevent further unlawful attacks and other violations of international law, as t
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Thai security forces pursuing a counter-insurgency campaign in the country’s violence-plagued southern provinces systematically engage in torture and other ill-t
Monday 12 January 2009
President Colom’s first year in office has produced some promising commitments to improve human rights for Guatemalans, but for those commitments to have real me
Monday 12 January 2009
Chinese authorities should immediately re-establish access to the organization’s website, Amnesty International said today.
Monday 12 January 2009
Five leading human rights and civil liberties groups delivered a letter to President-elect Barack Obama on January 12, 2009, urging him to suspend the Guantánam
Friday 9 January 2009
On the eve of the seventh anniversary of the first transfers to the US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay, Amnesty International is calling on President-elect B
Friday 9 January 2009
Macao’s legislators should revise proposed security legislation that threatens the rights of the territory’s residents, Amnesty International said today, a
Thursday 8 January 2009
In the context of the 7th anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International’s memb
Thursday 8 January 2009
As John Evans Atta Mills takes office after a hotly contested election in Ghana, Amnesty International today released a seven-point human rights agenda for the new Pre
Thursday 8 January 2009
Lasantha Wickramatunga, editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, was shot on Thursday morning by unidentified gunmen while travelling in Mount Lavinia, Colombo. Mr Wickr
