In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International calls
on states to reaffirm everyo
Mohammed Jawad and Omar Khadr were under 18 at the time of their detention by the US military in Afghanistan. Their pre-trial hearings resumed this week.
On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of
Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
to challenge
Nine women attempting to take part in a small, peaceful seminar to
commemorate a day of solidarity with Iranian women were arrested in
Tehran on Thursday.
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan, is leading a mission to Spain to meet with government officials, human rights organizations, survivors of human
Reports indicate that the Egyptian authorities have deported some 700
Eritrean asylum-seekers to Massawa in Eritrea, on special daily Egypt
Air flights from Aswan In
Amnesty International has accused the international community and the
Afghan government of not meeting their pledge to provide the Afghan
people, particularly women
