In the past few months Amnesty Inernational has contacted the Prime Minister and Attorney General on several occasions to seek their participation in face-to-face meetings with Secretary General...

The organisation remains extremely concerned for their safety, despite a Burma government statement of 6 September which downplays Amnesty International's challenge to clarify their whereabouts and...

The Millennium Summit will take place at the United Nations in New York between 6 and 8 September. In May, UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, wrote to all UN member states highlighting 25 core treaties...

Britain has agreed to the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which bans the use of under 18s in hostilities, but has not yet signed up. Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty...

Serbian police yesterday raided the Belgrade headquarters of the Otpor (Resistance) student opposition movement taking away computers, files and campaign material. The same day two Otpor activists...

Although the return to constitutional rule in Ghana in 1993 has substantially increased freedom of expression and association, allowing the development of independent news media and political...

'Human rights defenders, journalists, religious figures, writers, government officials, trade unionists and academics have all been detained as prisoners of conscience', the human rights organisation...

'The whereabouts of the two National League for Democracy (NLD)leaders is still not clear, which increases fears for their welfare. If they are being confined to their homes, we strongly urge the...

On 24 August 2000, a man who calls himself Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, alleged to have been responsible for torture in Argentina during the military government (1976-1983), was arrested in Cancun as he...

Seven people who were last seen in the hands of security forces in Vavuniya between 10 and 16 August have ' disappeared ', bringing the total number of 'disappearances' in that city to nine this year...