January 2010

Amnesty International today issued a series of recommendations to newly elected Honduran President Porfirio Lobo to repair the damage done to human rights since the June 2009 coup d'etat, which left hundreds seeking justice. Posted: 29 Jan 2010

Amnesty International has voiced its fears that the forthcoming trial of a prominent photographer in Uzbekistan is just the latest attempt by the Uzbek authorities to suppress freedom of expression in the country. Posted: 29 Jan 2010

Amnesty International urged the Malaysian authorities to drop politically-motivated criminal charges of sodomy against Anwar Ibrahim, the countrys opposition leader, after he lost an appeal today for access to the governments evidence against him. Posted: 29 Jan 2010

Amnesty International has condemned the execution of two men arrested during protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election last year. Posted: 28 Jan 2010

Women are dying needlessly during pregnancy and childbirth because discrimination prevents them from accessing sexual and reproductive health services, leaving them unable to make key decisions on their pregnancies, Amnesty International said in a report released today (27 Jan 2010). Posted: 27 Jan 2010

Human rights, including womens rights, must not be traded away or compromised during any reconciliation talks with the Taleban in Afghanistan, Amnesty International said, ahead of a one-day conference in London (28 January) to discuss deteriorating security conditions in the country. Posted: 27 Jan 2010

Responding to todays Joint Study report by two United Nations Special Rapporteurs and the Working Groups on Arbitrary Detention and on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said: Todays report is just the latest to shed light on the murky business of the UKs complicity with the secret rendition programme." Posted: 27 Jan 2010

More than 100 Roma people - including families with children - are living in metal cabins next to a sewage works in Romania after they were forcibly evicted from their homes, according to a new Amnesty report, 'Treated like waste: Roma homes destroyed and health at risk in Romania'. Posted: 26 Jan 2010

Amnesty International today urged the new Honduran President to order a full investigation into abuses committed by the security forces following June's coup d'etat or risk condemning the country to further violations. Posted: 26 Jan 2010

Two weeks after an earthquake brought great loss of lives and material destruction to parts of Haiti, the international community maintains its mobilization in bringing much needed relief and humanitarian assistance to the Haitian people. The UN Security Council held a special session on the humanitarian crisis following the earthquake in Haiti and today the Canadian government held the first international conference to lay out the initial response for reconstruction. Posted: 26 Jan 2010

Amnesty International today warned that the governments heavy-handed response to the threat posed by al-Qaida puts Yemen at risk of being locked in a downward spiral on human rights. Releasing a new report on Yemen, published ahead of this Wednesdays international high-level meeting in London, Amnesty highlighted that there has been a significant increase in human rights violations against those who criticise or oppose the government in Yemen. Posted: 26 Jan 2010

Amnesty International has written to the Saudi Arabian authorities urging them to ensure that a 13-year-old girl is spared a punishment of public flogging for an assault on her teacher after a dispute over a banned mobile phone at her school. Posted: 25 Jan 2010

An Ivorian court decision to transfer £30 million intended for the victims of the Trafigura toxic waste disaster to a group falsely claiming to represent them is a travesty of justice, Amnesty International said today [Fri 22 Jan]. Posted: 22 Jan 2010

The Mexican authorities are failing in their duty to protect human rights defenders from killings and life-threatening harassment and attacks, Amnesty International warns in a new report. The report, Standing up for justice and dignity: Human Rights defenders in Mexico, describes more than 15 cases of human rights workers who have suffered killings, attacks, harassment, threats and imprisonment on fabricated charges between 2007 and 2009 to prevent them from doing their work. Posted: 21 Jan 2010

Amnesty International has called for arms transfers to the Somali government to be suspended until there are adequate safeguards to prevent weapons from being used to commit war crimes and human rights abuses. Posted: 21 Jan 2010

Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of four Vietnamese prisoners of conscience jailed for their peaceful pro-democracy activism. Posted: 20 Jan 2010

Amnesty International today (19 January) warned the Angolan authorities against a crackdown on human rights activists after several were detained in the Cabinda region in the wake of the 8 January attack on the Togolese national football team. Posted: 19 Jan 2010

One year on from the end of Israel's military offensive in Gaza Amnesty has called on Israel to lift its 'suffocating' blockade of Gaza, as we released a new briefing on the plight of Palestinians living under the blockade. The briefing shows that Palestinians are finding it all but impossible to survive never mind rebuild after the devastation of Operation 'Cast Lead' Posted: 18 Jan 2010

Amnesty International has called on the United Nations to put in place measures for the protection of human rights and the most vulnerable among the survivors of last week's devastating earthquake. Posted: 18 Jan 2010

Pressure groups accuse the government of putting business interests above human rights and the environment. Posted: 18 Jan 2010