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Publication Date: 02 August 2007

Rwanda has become the latest country to abolish the death penalty, accelerating the worldwide trend towards ending capital punishment.

Publication Date: 01 August 2007

UN to send peacekeeping force to Darfur

The UN Security Council is to send a new peacekeeping force to Darfur in Sudan, following extensive worldwide campaigning by groups including Amnesty International

Publication Date: 23 July 2007

Prisoners of conscience set free in Ethiopia

Ethiopia has released a large group of prisoners of conscience, just four days after sentencing them all to lengthy prison stretches.

Publication Date: 17 July 2007

Time for justice in Darfur

In April this year, international arrest warrants were issued for a Sudanese government minister and a leader of the government-supported Janjawid militias.

Publication Date: 15 June 2007

Rendition in the Horn of Africa

At least 140 men, women and children fleeing conflict in Somalia were arrested by Kenyan authorities between 30 December 2006 and February 2007 as they tried to enter

Publication Date: 07 June 2007

'Off the record' secret CIA detention

At least 39 individuals who remain missing are believed to have been subjected to enforced disappearance by the US authorities.

Publication Date: 03 May 2007

Press Freedom Day: Global action needed to protect journalists

2006 was a year in which killings of reporters and media staff reached historic levels. All of society pays the price when journalists are killed with impunity and cen

Publication Date: 05 April 2007

Zimbabwean trade unionists in hiding

Two Zimbabwean trade unionists have gone into hiding after receiving threatening phone calls.

Publication Date: 03 April 2007

Guantánamo: Freedom for UK resident Bisher al-Rawi

Amnesty International welcomes the release from Guantánamo of Bisher al-Rawi. The UK resident was reunited with his family in the UK on 1 April after more than

Publication Date: 02 April 2007

Trade unionists at risk in Zimbabwe

Amnesty International is concerned that activists from the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) are at risk of being arrested, beaten by police and tortured whil

Publication Date: 22 March 2007

Harassment of activists continues in Zimbabwe

About 50 activists were arrested at a public meeting in Zimbabwe on 11 March 2007, in defiance of a three-month ban imposed by the authorities.

Publication Date: 23 January 2007

Blood Diamonds are still a reality

Conflict or blood diamonds fuel conflict, civil wars and human rights abuses.

Publication Date: 20 November 2006

Guantánamo: pain and distress for thousands of children

Thousands of children around the world have suffered pain and distress as a result of US counter-terror policies and practices.

Publication Date: 03 May 2006

Press Freedom: Journalists in need of protection

Since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003, more journalists have been killed in that country than anywhere else in the world.

Publication Date: 05 April 2006

The secretive and illegal US programme of 'rendition'

Salah 'Ali Qaru finally emerged free from detention around midnight on 27 March. In nearly three years, the 27-year-old Yemeni was tortured in Jordan, flown from count

Publication Date: 14 October 2005

Uganda: Former child soldiers excluded in adulthood

"Okello John's" brutal initiation into the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) at the age of fourteen served its purpose; it was two years before he tried to esca

Publication Date: 03 May 2004

Press freedom: Deliberately targeted for doing their jobs

The freedom of the press is an essential element of the protection of human rights.

Publication Date: 10 December 2003

Control Arms Campaign: Tangible momentum and potential for real change

On this 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, threats of new terrorist attacks and the dangers of weapons of mass destruction dominate the h