Amnesty International is concerned at the abduction of children in Northern Uganda by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), estimated at a total of 12,000 over the last 12 years. Abducted children are forced to work in appalling conditions and are used as soldiers in various conflicts. In addition,...
This report details the areas of concern that Amnesty International will raise at the 55th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights in March/April 1999. These include concerns in the following countries: Algeria, Cambodia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Turkey, USA, China, Colombia,...
This document contains Amnesty International’s recommendations that there should be an explicit inclusion of child soldiering in the proposed International Labour Organization Convention and Recommendation concerning the prohibition and immediate elimination of the worst forms of child labour.
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 human...
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...