At least 2.3 million people have been displaced by the conflict in
Darfur; most now
live in more than 65 camps dotted around Darfur.
Amnesty International has obtained disturbing first-hand accounts from
Burmese monks who witnessed the brutal attack on a monastic training
school on 25 September.
Amnesty International has today written to Myanmar's authorities with a
briefing paper outlining grave and ongoing human rights violations
committed since the start of September's crackdown.
Stories of the death penalty around the world - an animated slideshow narrated by Colin Firth
About 50 activists were arrested at a public meeting in Zimbabwe on 11 March 2007, in defiance of a three-month ban imposed by the authorities.
Reports from the Northern Caucasus regularly bring further evidence of
continuing arbitrary detentions, followed by torture, "disappearance"
or unlawful killings.
The US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay is condemning thousands of people across the world to a life of suffering, torment and stigmatisation.
