Amnesty International has called for an international commission of inquiry to investigate the brutal attacks committed by soliders during the suppression of a mass rally in Conakry earlier this week.
The government's increased surveillance, harassment and imprisonment of activists is to prevent them from raising human rights concerns that challenge the authorities' image of social harmony.
Successive governments have failed to provide
justice, reparation, adequate healthcare to thousands of women and girls raped during the
country's 1992-1995 war, says a new Amnesty International report.
Amnesty International's Secretary General has urged the White House to refer the report on violations of international law committed in Gaza to the UN Security Council.
Amnesty International warns that the discovery of the remains of over 160 victims of extrajudicial execution in Pakistan's Swat Valley highlights the ongoing human rights
crisis in the country’s northwestern areas.
Some seeking safe haven from the fighting between government troops and militants in the Sa'da region, are said to have been denied entry. Others have been forcibly returned to the conflict zone.
All relevant UN bodies must act promptly and in coordination to implement the recommendations of the UN-mandated Goldstone report on violations of international law committed in Gaza and southern Israel in late December and January, Amnesty International said today.
As Afghan officials and the international community grapple with an
ongoing election crisis amid allegations of fraud, Afghans face a
rising tide of violence and violations of their human rights.
Since the September 11 attacks in the USA eight years ago, the Saudi
Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights
in the name of countering terrorism.
Following a large-scale police operation, the families are now sleeping under plastic sheeting on land opposite the site of the
eviction. They are without food or blankets in cold, wet conditions.
