Both sides to the 22-day conflict in Gaza and Southern Israel one year ago, have until 2 February to show that they are willing and able to undertake investigations that meet international standards.
One year on, no one has been held accountable for the war crimes and other grave violations of international law reported by a UN Fact Finding Mission.
Amnesty International has condemned the kidnapping and killing of Luis Francisco Cuéllar Carvajal, Governor of the Colombian department of Caquetá in the south of the country.
Amnesty International has called on the Chinese authorities to reveal the whereabouts of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers who were forcibly deported from Cambodia to China on 19 December
Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to ensure that freedom to gather peacefully is assured during ’Ashoura religious celebrations this month.
Charged with 'inciting subversion of state power', the scholar is one of hundreds of signatories of Charter 08, a proposal for political reform in China.
Director of the UN’s Millennium Campaign for the past six years, and
the Chief Executive of ActionAid before that, Salil Shetty will take up his new post in June 2010.
