March 2012

Response to reports that scores of Palestinian protesters marking Land Day have been injured. Posted: 30 Mar 2012

A leading Bahraini human rights defender serving a life sentence for his role in anti-government protests last year must be released immediately, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 30 Mar 2012

Amnesty is calling for an investigation into attacks on peaceful protesters today in Malis capital Bamako. Posted: 29 Mar 2012

Japans decision to hang three prisoners after nearly two years without executions in the country is a retrograde step. Posted: 29 Mar 2012

Amnesty International has called for a more effective search and rescue system for migrants and asylum-seekers in the Mediterranean after a damning report was today by a Council of Europe Parliamentary Committee into the deaths at sea of 63 migrants and asylum-seekers fleeing Libya last year. Posted: 29 Mar 2012

Amnesty International Scotland will launch two reports examining the treatment of Scottish Gypsy Travellers by Scottish local authorities and the media on Monday 2 April Posted: 29 Mar 2012

Amnesty welcomes the final hour reprieve for Balwant Singh, due to be executed on Saturday 31 March. Posted: 29 Mar 2012

Twenty years after the start of the conflict, the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina must honour its 2010 commitment to ensure justice, truth and reparation for hundreds of survivors of wartime sexual violence - Amnesty briefing published today. Posted: 29 Mar 2012

Ahead of the meeting of heads of state at the Arab League Summit in Baghdad tomorrow (29 March), Philip Luther, Amnesty Internationals interim Middle East and North Africa Director, is available for interview from London. Posted: 28 Mar 2012

The rejection last night in the House of Lords of proposed amendments to the governments Legal Aid Bill, is a huge blow to justice which will place the law beyond the reach of human rights victims. Posted: 28 Mar 2012

The Maldives authorities must immediately investigate allegations that police beat and sexually harassed four women detained during an anti-government rally, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 28 Mar 2012

Cuban human rights activists are facing a surge in harassment in a bid to silence them during the Pope's visit, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 28 Mar 2012

A travel ban on a prominent Saudi Arabian human rights defender imposed just before he planned to attend a democracy course in the United States, must be lifted immediately, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 27 Mar 2012

Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate but the number of countries using capital punishment has decreased by more than a third compared to a decade ago, said Amnesty International today, as it published its annual report on global death sentences and executions. Posted: 27 Mar 2012

The execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana must be halted and an official moratorium on capital punishment established in India, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 26 Mar 2012

Amnesty International UK today announced the shortlist for the 2012 Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year. This years competition attracted over 3,000 participants from 150 different schools from all four corners of the United Kingdom. Posted: 26 Mar 2012

The Israeli authorities should immediately release a Palestinian detainee or charge her with a recognisable criminal offence and promptly try her, Amnesty International said amid fears that the woman could die in detention after 37 days on hunger strike. Posted: 23 Mar 2012

Any UN mission to supervise an end to armed violence in Syria must include as part of its work the monitoring and reporting of human rights violations and abuses, including crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 23 Mar 2012

Leaders of the military coup against President Amadou Toumani Tours Malian government must release the prime minister and other politicians from custody and take steps to protect human rights, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 22 Mar 2012

Ruling instils fear in anyone defending human rights in Zimbabwe - Erwin van der Borght Posted: 22 Mar 2012