Press releases
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
Wednesday 7 January 2009
Amnesty International said today that both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters are endangering the lives of Palestinian civilians – including by using them
Tuesday 6 January 2009
Amnesty International today urged the UN Security Council to demand that Israel, Hamas and Palestinian armed groups observe an immediate truce in Gaza to allow despera
Tuesday 6 January 2009
Amnesty International called the Charities and Societies Proclamation law (CSO law), adopted today by the Ethiopian parliament, a repressive law designed to strictly c
Monday 5 January 2009
Amnesty International today urged the UN Security Council to take firm and decisive action to address the increasingly grave situation in the Gaza Strip and southern I
Monday 5 January 2009
Amnesty International is publishing a media resource centre with up-to-date information, facts and figures, analysis and stories related to the US detention centre in
Wednesday 31 December 2008
As the number of casualties continues to mount, civilians in Gaza are in increasingly dire need of food, medical and other emergency assistance, Amnesty International
Monday 29 December 2008
Palestinian civilians remain at risk of being killed or injured in the Israeli air strikes and are increasingly lacking adequate medical care food, medicines, electric
