In order to assist Member States in assessing the contribution and commitment of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights, this document contains ...
This doument summarizes each of the 16 ECOWAS countries' legislation on the death penalty, provides information on the most recent executions and convictions and ...
News Service 237/99. AI INDEX: AFR 37/01/99. 16 December 1999. MEDIA ADVISORY. MALI. Amnesty International's Secretary General meets President Alpha Oumar KONARÉ ...
This document provides details of the unfair trial of Mady Diallo and six soldiers which was attended by two AI delegates. The delagates were able to confirm serious ...
Thsi document presents AI's concerns about the repeated violations of human rights which threaten the construction of a state governed by the rule of law and put ...
One third of the world's refugees and more than half the internally displaced are in Africa. Widespread disregard for human rights has caused their forcible displacement ...
Northern Mali has seen an escalation of ethnic violence in recent months. Attacks and killings by political armed bands, mostly from the minority Tuareg and Moorish ...
AI is concerned about the killing of at least 17 Tuareg civilians by the Malian army in recent weeks. No independent inquiry appears to have been ordered into the ...