6 October 2008
The choice of the Angolan capital Luanda to lead the global observance
of this year's World Habitat Day provoked controversy among housing and
human rights organizations.
6 October 2008
As World Habitat Day focuses on the state of the housing rights situation across the globe, here are case studies from cities in Cambodia, Brazil, Italy, Israel and Angola.
2 October 2008
Forty years ago, the Mexican army opened fire on students peacefully
demonstrating in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, on 2 October 1968.
1 October 2008
Tens of thousands of displaced people are still unable to return home after the Georgia-Russia conflict. Amnesty International collected eye-witness accounts from survivors of the hostilities and took photographs of the war's aftermath.
1 October 2008
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights activists and the
participants of the Sarajevo Queer Festival continue to receive death
threats.
29 September 2008
Child soldiers are still being recruited to fight in the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is also continuing physical and sexual abuse of women and children in the conflict.
29 September 2008
A prominent Egyptian newspaper editor faces two months in prison for
writing an article about the health of Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak.
26 September 2008
Some 150,000 Cambodians live at risk of being forcibly evicted in the
wake of land disputes, land grabbing and agro-industrial and urban
redevelopment projects in 2008.
26 September 2008
Several people were attacked at the end of the first day of the Sarajevo Queer Festival on Wednesday.
26 September 2008
Amnesty International confirmed on Friday that one of the seven
prisoners of conscience freed this week, U Win Htein, was re-arrested a
few hours after his release.
