Indian authorities have given local communities scant information about the potential impact of a refinery expansion and mining project proposed by subsidiaries of Vedanta Resources in Orissa.
Dozens were killed by security forces during more than a year of anti-government protests, sparked by the closure of the Viva television station in December 2008.
Police in Papua New Guinea burnt down homes and threatened people with guns while
illegally evicting them from land next to one of the country's biggest gold mines.
The organization has issued 13 recommendations to newly elected Honduran President
Porfirio Lobo to repair the damage done to human rights since the June
2009 coup d'état.
Arms transfers should be suspended until there are
adequate safeguards to prevent weapons from being used to commit war
crimes and human rights abuses, says Amnesty International.
Amnesty International's new report details how activists have suffered killings, attacks, harassment, threats and imprisonment to prevent them from doing
their work.
A new Amnesty International report says that the authorities are continuing to place Romani children in schools for pupils with
"mild mental disabilities".
Moroccan authorities have failed to deliver on their promises to tackle
the legacy of gross human rights violations committed in Morocco and
Western Sahara between 1956 and 1999, Amnesty International said ahead
of a report to be published on the issue.
