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Cuba signs up for human rights | Amnesty International
29 February 2008

Cuba signed two major human rights treaties at the UN in New York on Thursday.

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Cuba: Respect and protect human rights without reservations ...
29 February 2008

Amnesty International today welcomed Cuba’s signing of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil

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Iraq/USA: Further information on death penalty/fear of imminent ...
29 February 2008

'Ali Hassan al-Majid, one of three former senior officials in Saddam Hussein’s government currently in US military custody in Iraq, is in imminent danger of execution ...

Urgent Action MDE 14/006/2008

Mexico: A Historic Opportunity Should Not Be Lost
28 February 2008

Mexico: A Historic Opportunity Should Not Be Lost

Document AMR 41/007/2008

FARC releases four more hostages | Amnesty International
28 February 2008

Four more hostages have been released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

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Brazil: “Pancadaria não educa”- will Brazil finally end ...
27 February 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. 27 February 2008. AMR 19/006/2008. Brazil: “Pancadaria não educa”- will Brazil finally end torture? ...

Document AMR 19/006/2008

Guatemala: Death Penalty: Proposed resumption of executions
27 February 2008

On 12 February 2008 the Congress of Guatemala approved Decree 06-2008, known as the “Law regulating the commuting of sentence for those condemned to death”, which ...

Urgent Action AMR 34/004/2008