This document details the massive human rights violations committed against unarmed civilian populations in the DRC by the forces involved in armed conflict, particularly the Forces Armees Congolaises (FAC) and the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie (RCD). There has been an escalation in...

This report looks at the human rights abuses committed against civilians in Sierra Leone by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), the armed opposition group, the Revolutionary Front (RUF), and others during 1998. Many people have been arbitrarily killed or mutilated or forced to flee their...

This report provides an update on Amnesty International’s main concerns in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to individual country reports there are special sections on AI’s work with human rights defenders and with the Organization of African Unity and the African Commission.

This document sets out Amnesty International’s recommendations to the South Korean government for the strengthening and development of an ethical foreign policy. These recommendatiuons include further involvement in the establishment of the ICC, encouraging the region to adopt/ratify key...

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Amnesty International is concerned that the change of government in the Democratic Republic of Congo has failed to end a culture of human rights abuses and impunity. Before and after it came to power in 1997 the Alliance des forces democratiques pour la liberation du Congo (ADFL) has presided over...

This document reproduces the five oral statements made by AI at the 54th UN Commission on Human Rights. These statements concerned Israel-Occupied Territories; emergency law practices in Northern Ireland; human rights mass exodus and displaced persons; human rights in Algeria and the status of the...

This is the fifth in a series of position papers which AI has published in support of the establishment of a just, fair and effective international criminal court. This document concentrates on making recommendations based on the consolidated test of 116 articles which will be used at the...

This report highlights the situation of children in South Asia who continue to be the victims of human rights abuses. The introduction summarizes the international framework of children’s rights. Sections explore abuses of children in the custody of the state, in the community and family life...

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On 28 March Muderwa, a member of the presidential guard, was sentenced to death by a military tribunal after a grossly unfair trial and is now under threat of imminent execution. The military court’s statute prohibits appeal to a higher jurisdiction and defendants have no opportunity to...

With this paper AI wants to draw attention to abuses in the context of child recruitment both by government and/or armed opposition groups. AI is committed to a higher standard of protection in internationl law for children at risk of participating in hostilities and recruitment into armed forces.