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 ...
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 ...
The execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi, scheduled for 16 July 2009, has been postponed, and the Head of the Judiciary is not known to have set a new execution date ...
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 ...
Health professionals have been active in the work of Amnesty international since its inception, and have played an increasingly valuable role in documenting human ...
On 30 July 2009, US District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle ordered the release, “beginning on August 21, 2009”, of Afghan national Mohammed Jawad from the US ...
