Fears for the safety of members of the indigenous Awá community in Colombia have intensified after unidentified gunmen killed 12 community members, including 4 ...
On 29 July 2009, the 2008-2009 hostilities, which displaced more than 750000 persons in total and led to numerous human rights abuses, officially ended with an ...
International Day of the Disappeared, 30 August 2009, is the time to demand justice for victims of enforced disappearances. In this document Amnesty International ...
More than 200000 people living in camps with limited access to food, also face human rights abuses by both the army and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) ...
Human rights organizations in the Indian state of Manipur, have alleged that the police abducted Bidyarani Devi Salam to make her parents - who were suspected of ...
This report describes human rights violations committed in Tunisia in the past year in the name of counter-terrorism and security and updates information in a previous ...
Santiago Omar Riveros, who ran a detention centre, was found guilty of torturing and beating todeath a 15 year old boy. He is also accused of over 40 crimes against ...
Women who faced abuse and sexual slavery at the hand of the JapaneseImperial army during the Second World War, have now been waiting 64 years for an official apologyand ...