This document contains Amnesty International’s suggested recommendations for the 12 states – Australia, Austria, Georgia, Lebanon, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Oman, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia – that are coming up for review in the UPR Working Group session on 2-13...

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2011 was a year without precedent for the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa region. It was a year in which millions of people of all ages and backgrounds flooded on to the streets to demand change. Dubbed the “Arab Spring”, in fact the protests brought together in common cause people from...

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People first called for fundamental change in Tunisia at the end of 2010, the year covered by Amnesty International’s latest annual worldwide survey of human rights. Since then, the call for change has echoed through the region. Whatever the outcome of the uprisings that have so far won the day or...

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In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of various states about ending torture, arbitrary arrests, the death penalty, for example. The organization also makes wide-ranging recommendations about ESCR, violence against women, forced evictions, prison...

1. Call for worldwide moratorium gains momentum; 2. All death sentences commuted in Russia; 3. Special Rapporteur calls for tighter safeguards; 4. Hangings in Trinidad and Tobago; 5. News in brief; 6. Book review: La pena di morte nel mondo, Rapporto 1999 by Hands Off Cain.