On 6 February 2007 the municipality of Phnom Penh entered into a 99-year lease contract with a company whose development plan risks displacing between 3000 and ...
An Indigenous Canadian community’s longstanding campaign to stopclear-cut logging on its land has prompted a multinational papercompany to stop buying wood f.
Judit Arenas writes from the World Economic Forum in Davos about talking to those that can take steps to improve human rights – not just governments, but also co
Irene Khan has written to world political and business leaders, callingon them to raise the issue of Pakistan's human rights situation withPresident Musharraf at ...
Ad n Alberto Pacheco Rodr guez, a former leader of the electricity workers' union, was shot dead on 2 May 2005 by two gunmen. Two days later a written death threat ...
Amnesty International is urging the United Nations Security Council to immediately impose a mandatory arms embargo on Myanmar. States, in particular China, India ...
Insufficient consultation of affected communities and an atmosphere of mounting tension, violence and intimidation have characterized government steps to build ...
Amnesty International has prepared the present briefing in order to highlight human rights concerns associated with La Parota hydroelectric dam. It focuses in particular ...
