This document provides a summary of AI’s concerns regarding the human rights situation in South Korea since President Kim Dae-jung took office in February 1998. Although Amnesty welcomes his commitment to improving the situation, urgent reforms are required, especially in connection with the...

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This document contains three appeal cases for the Trade Union Action 1998. 1. Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia; 2. Update on Nigeria; 3. Action focus on Zimbabwe.

The 54th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights will meet from 16 March to 24 April 1998. This document describes the concerns that the organization will raise as a matter of priority. This year AI is calling on the Commission to act in particular on five countries which present a pattern of...

This document presents six case studies from a variety of APEC countries which highlight the indivisibility of human rights. It illustrate a range of AI’s concerns related to patterns of economic development and human rights. They demonstrate how violations of civil, cultural, economic, political...

Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepali immigrant worker in Japan, was beaten, interrogated for long periods and denied access to his lawyer after his arrest in March 1997. He was later charged with murder and his trial is due to start in late August. There are reports that several key witnesses in this...

1. Indonesia: Prisoner of conscience / unfair trial: Dita Indah Sari; 2. Peru: Prisoner of conscience: Juan Alberto Huapaya Palomino; 3. Malaysia: Human rights defender on trial: Irene Fernandez; 4. Morocco: Long-term “disappearances” / prisoners of conscience: Houcine El-Manouzi, Abdelhaq Rouissi;...

The nations of ASEAN (Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam) are a notable exception to the trend followed by an increasing number of countries from widely different regions and cultural traditions moving to abolish the death penalty. This document...

This document is the text of a speech given by Ross Daniels, member of AI’s International Executive Committee (IEC) responsible for Asia, at the Manila People’s Forum on APEC (Asia and Pacific Economic Cooperation) in November 1996, and also six illustrative case studies from the APEC region on the...

Six case studies which illustrate Amnesty International’s concerns related to patterns of economic development within APEC member states, including trade unions; mining, land and development; peasants and indigenous people; land disputes and migrant workers. 1. People’s Republic of China:...

Over the last months Amnesty International has monitored with increasing concern the grave human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly against the backdrop of the first elections in the state since 1989. Immediately before and during the April/May elections to the Indian union...

There is concern at the forthcoming trial of Irene Fernandez, the Director of Tenaganita, a women’s non-governmental organization based in Kuala Lumpur. She was arrested on 18 March 1996 and charged with publishing “false news” in a report on alleged human rights violations in camps for detained...