May 2004

On the closing date (31 May) for submissions to the DTI's consultation on a draft international strategy on CSR, more than 20 leading charities have written to the Secretary of State Patricia Hewitt calling into question the government's whole strategy on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Posted: 31 May 2004

Posted: 28 May 2004

Posted: 28 May 2004

Amnesty International today (27 May) issued the following statement by the organisation's Israel and Occupied Territories researcher Donatella Rovera, eyewitness to yesterday's arrest in Jerusalem of Peter Hounam, the British journalist who published details in the Sunday Times of Israel's secret nuclear programme in 1986 based on information he received from Mordechai Vanunu. Posted: 27 May 2004

Governments and armed groups have launched a war on global values, destroying the human rights of ordinary people, Amnesty International said today as it released its annual assessment of human rights worldwide. The 'war on terror' and the war in Iraq has not only led to a new wave of human rights abuses but also diverted attention from old ones which continue hidden from the eyes of the world. Posted: 26 May 2004

On the eve of the visit to the UK by Recep Tayyip Erdoðan, Prime Minister of Turkey, Amnesty International has issued the following briefing, based on the organisation's Annual Report into worldwide human rights abuses, released today (26 May). Posted: 26 May 2004

May 2004 - 4 Sept 2004 Posted: 25 May 2004

BBC documentary to be broadcast Thursday 27 May 2004. "On the third day we finally got to the village and the emotional meeting was beyond any comprehension. Adult men and elders, women and children, with their hands clasped were weeping and prostrating themselves to us, showing their wounds and pleading for help - "We waited 30 years for you to come here, like children waiting for parents"." Posted: 25 May 2004

May 2004 Posted: 24 May 2004

Posted: 21 May 2004

may 2004 - june 26th 2004 Posted: 21 May 2004

Amnesty International urges the Israeli authorities to promptly carry out a thorough and independent investigation into the killing of eight Palestinians, four of them children, and the injury of dozens of others by the Israeli army during a demonstration in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, on 19 May 2004. Posted: 21 May 2004

Amnesty International is concerned by reports that Zimbabwe plans to extradite 69 alleged mercenaries to Equatorial Guinea because they will be at grave risk of torture and unfair trial procedures, and could face the death penalty. Posted: 21 May 2004

As Eritrea approaches the 11th anniversary of its formal independence (24 May), torture, arbitrary detention, "disappearances," ill-treatment of political prisoners and religious persecution have become entrenched in Eritrea, Amnesty International said today (19 May) in a new report, 'Eritrea: "You have no right to ask" - Government resists scrutiny on human rights'. Posted: 19 May 2004

The US Congress must set up an impartial and independent commission of inquiry to thoroughly investigate the USA's 'war on terror' detentions across the globe, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 19 May 2004

A Question Time event organised by Amnesty International on 24 May will give people in London the opportunity to quiz a panel of Euro election candidates on human rights issues - from prisoner abuse in Iraq to detention without charge or trial in the UK, from controls on European weapons going to human rights abusers to EU asylum policy. Posted: 19 May 2004

Israel's destruction of thousands of Palestinian and Arab Israeli homes and vast areas of agricultural land has reached "an unprecedented level", said Amnesty International today (18 May), as it released a new report condemning the destruction as a human rights violation. Posted: 18 May 2004

May 2004 Posted: 18 May 2004

Oxfam and Amnesty International have today welcomed the call by a cross-party committee of MPs for the government to get tough on arms sales. Posted: 18 May 2004

Amnesty International has issued an urgent alert to its members after police shot dead Robin 'Country' Anderson on 5 May 2004 in an alleged extrajudicial execution and detained Curtis Greenwood and Jeffrey James, both from Morgan Lane, Spanish Town. Posted: 18 May 2004