Protesters in Jammu & Kashmir continued to press for the Indian
government to seriously pursue allegations that members of the Central
Reserve Police Force raped
Plans to kill Marcelo Freixo and his aide were found during a
long-term police operation against militia groups controlling over a hundred shantytowns in Rio de Janei
Hundreds of civilians were killed and injured as a result of the crackdown and a number of people are still in prison for their involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy p
The Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE) must allow
tens of thousands of civilians to leave the 'No Fire Zone', Amnesty
Internation
Amnesty International urged the UN Security Council to take action
after at least 35 people were reported to have been killed in northern
Sri Lanka in an attack on a
Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in
which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing
numbers of their colleagues a
Seven members of the Colombian army unit which is alleged to have
killed the husband of an Indigenous leader have been detained,
according to media reports.
The Israel Defense Forces' probe has concluded that it committed no human rights violations and made only rare mistakes, some of which may have resulted in the killing
There can be no stability and security for the people of Chechnya, until those responsible for gross human rights abuses in the country over the last 10 years are brou
