Press releases in 1999

Imagine opening a greetings card during the holiday season and finding not a message from a friend, a member of your family or some half-forgotten acquaintance, but a death threat. Viviana Diaz Caro...

Since the bombing of residential buildings in Moscow last September, the Russian authorities have embarked on a campaign code-named 'Operation Whirlwind'. Although no one has claimed responsibility...

Amnesty International yesterday urged the Bahamas to grant clemency to John Higgs and David Mitchell and at the very least, to grant each man a stay of execution until the Inter- American Commission...

'A dialogue is only a means to an end, and not an end in itself. Any meaningful dialogue must squarely address the sharp deterioration in the human rights situation in China since the end of last year...

we are thinking about returning to our homes.' (a refugee in Nenuk, Atambua, 10 November 1999) For the more than 100,000 refugees trapped in makeshift camps in West Timor, the human rights crisis is...

The rallies were being held at the close of the campaigning in presidential elections scheduled for tomorrow, 21 December. The attacks happened within hours of each other. The attack on a rally...

Pakistan has ratified the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights (Women's rights's rightss...

'The international community has failed East Timor in the past,' Amnesty International said. 'By placing human rights at the heart of their financial assistance, donors can help to ensure a new future...

Loyalist paramilitaries claimed responsibility for the car bomb which killed her nearly nine months ago. The organisations recognize the current criminal investigation is limited to the circumstances...

Last night, the 'Dispatches' programme, Licensed to Kill, revealed the shipment of 500 Heckler and Koch UK sub-machineguns to Indonesia at the height of the crisis in East Timor this year. The...