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10 September 2008
With the swearing in of Musharraf's successor, Asif Ali Zardari, the
Pakistani government should act immediately to reverse the country's
human rights record.
10 September 2008
The Sri Lankan government’s order for United Nations and
non-governmental aid workers to leave the war-torn northern Wanni
region, could further endanger tens
10 September 2008
Musician and human rights campaigner receives the Amnesty International Award from U2 guitarist the Edge at the launch of the Small Places Tour.
05 September 2008
As Condoleezza Rice becomes the first US Secretary of State to visit
Libya in 55 years, Amnesty International urges the US government to
make human rights an integra
05 September 2008
The sole reason for the detention of five members of Hindu Rights Action Force, was for expressing concerns about the marginalization of ethnic South
Asians within Ma
05 September 2008
The trial of 49 people before an emergency court for alleged
involvement in the violent protests of 6 April 2008 in the city of
Mahalla is due to resume on 6 Septemb
02 September 2008
Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, calls on
Pakistan's new government to publish details on those held in secret
detention and shed light on the
02 September 2008
On the 25th International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International and Amina Janjua, the founder of Defence of Human Rights, called upon the Pakistan governm
02 September 2008
Amnesty International urges the Thai government to respect human rights and to remove restrictions on free speech contained in the emergency decree.
01 September 2008
Sussan Tahmasebi, founding member, Campaign for Equality. This Iranian women's movement seeks to change all gender-biased laws in Iran. Its 'One Million Signatures Cam
29 August 2008
Since the International Day of the Disappeared was started in 1983, the government practice of kidnapping, abducting or detaining people and
holding them in secret ha
29 August 2008
The trial of Radovan Karadzic resumes today in The Hague. But are a small number of high profile trials enough to heal
the wounds caused by the horrific violations of
29 August 2008
Nidzara Ahmetasevic talks about how she was wounded in the leg, about the Karadzic trial and about her hopes and dreams for the future of her country.
29 August 2008
Organization also calls on the Argentinean authorities to investigate the 2006 disappearance of Jorge Julio López.
27 August 2008
The blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip over a year ago has
left the population of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped with
dwindling resources and an economy
27 August 2008
In the second anniversary of the launch of the Campaign for Equality on
27 August, Amnesty International is renewing its demand that the
Iranian authorities cease ha
24 August 2008
As the Beijing Olympics ended, Amnesty International today accused the Chinese authorities of prioritizing image over substance as it continued to persecute and p
22 August 2008
Displaced civilians and refugees who fled during the conflict, as
well as those who remained in the areas where hostilities have taken
place, are in continued need o
22 August 2008
Tens of thousands who have already suffered from the renewal of violence, could be at even greater risk, if the
Philippine government supports the creation of untrain
20 August 2008
Since mid-2007, hundreds of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants most
of them from countries in sub-Saharan Africa have risked their lives
trying to cross the Egypt
