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Amnesty International has welcomed the historical decision by the high court in Delhi to decriminalise homosexuality. The decision is a significant step toward ensuring that people in India can express their sexual orientation or gender identity w Posted: 3 Jul 2009

Representatives from Amnesty International, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) will this afternoon petition the Gambian High Commission in London to put a stop to the trial of seven journalists that is scheduled to begin in the Gambia today. Posted: 3 Jul 2009

More than two million people who have fled fighting in northwestern Pakistan do not have access to aid distributed in official displacement camps, Amnesty International warned today. Posted: 3 Jul 2009

Amnesty International today (3 July) welcomed the Home Office's agreement to issue a travel document to Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a stateless Palestinian refugee who is under a Control Order. Posted: 3 Jul 2009

Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new 117-page report published today - the first comprehensive report to be published on the 22-day conflict earlier this year. Posted: 2 Jul 2009

Ongoing human rights abuses in Chechnya, Ingushetia and other parts of the North Caucasus 'lend the lie' to claims made by the Russia authorities that the region is generally reverting to 'normal' after years of human rights abuse, said Amnesty International today (1 July). Posted: 1 Jul 2009

Amnesty International today (30 June) published a damning new report revealing how decades of environmental damage by Shell and other oil companies in the Niger Delta has caused serious violations of local people's human rights - leaving them to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land, and breathing in air that stinks of oil and gas. Posted: 1 Jul 2009

Amnesty International today (30 June) said that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya must be able to return to Honduras immediately, without conditions and safely. Posted: 1 Jul 2009

A new report from Amnesty International today (29 June) details assaults, harassment, intimidation and imprisonment of independent journalists in Azerbaijan. Posted: 29 Jun 2009

The Iranian authorities must immediately release dozens of journalists arrested since 12 June and who are at risk of torture in detention, Amnesty International said today as it adopted all of them as prisoners of conscience. Posted: 29 Jun 2009

The Tanzanian authorities must ensure that thousands of Burundian refugees who have been living in the Mbatila camp are not sent back to their country under coercion, as suggested by recent reports received from a number of refugees and organisations, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 29 Jun 2009

Earlier this month more than 120 students from schools, colleges and universities across the UK met government ministers at the Foreign Office to demand tough new laws to control the arms trade as quickly as possible. Posted: 29 Jun 2009

Amnesty International is gravely concerned that several opposition leaders detained in the wake of the 12 June elections may be facing torture, possibly to force them to make televised 'confessions' as a prelude to unfair trials in which they could face the death penalty. Posted: 29 Jun 2009

The Irish government must admit that Shannon Airport was used as a launching pad for rendition operations by the CIA and act to ensure this can never happen again. Posted: 29 Jun 2009

The Thai authorities should immediately allow a public trial for Darunee Charnchoengsilpakul, who is charged with violating Thailand's 'lese majeste' law for allegedly insulting the monarchy, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 26 Jun 2009

Workers from across London will be giving up their lunch hour today (Friday) to attend a protest outside the Iranian Embassy against its Government's harsh treatment of trade unionists, something which is feared will get even worse in the wake of the current street demonstrations. Posted: 26 Jun 2009

Workers from across London will be giving up their lunch hour tomorrow (Friday 26 June) to protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Kensington at the Iranian government's harsh treatment of trade unionists during the current crackdown. Posted: 25 Jun 2009

Amnesty International condemns the cross amputations carried out on four teenagers earlier today by al-Shabab armed militia in northern Mogadishu. Posted: 25 Jun 2009

On the eve of Presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau on Sunday 28 June, Amnesty International calls on candidates, the government and the security forces to publicly commit to respect human rights during the election process and beyond Posted: 25 Jun 2009

Amnesty International is calling on the Al-Shabab armed group not to carry out amputations on four men who have been accused of robbery. Posted: 24 Jun 2009