Director of the UN’s Millennium Campaign for the past six years, and
the Chief Executive of ActionAid before that, Salil Shetty will take up his new post in June 2010.
Amnesty International has called on Nepal’s government to immediately fix the flawed vetting process that allowed an army major charged with murder to participate in the United Nations peace kee
Amnesty International has called for the release of an Iranian student
leader whose arrest and detention have inspired men to cover their hair
in an online solidarity photo campaign.
An attempt to defraud victims of the Trafigura toxic waste dump
disaster out of $45 million must be stopped, Amnesty International said
on Friday in an open letter.
To mark International Migrants Day, migrants from around the world have
told Amnesty International how they have been exploited, detained and
attacked.
Mosleh Zamani was hanged on Thursday morning, along with four other unidentified prisoners. He was sentenced to death in 2006 for allegedly raping his girlfriend when he was 17.
The government and President Dalia Grybauskaite have been urged to ensure that next week's report into allegations that the CIA operated a 'black site' in Lithuanian is thorough,
independent, and impartial.
