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Jamaica/United Kingdom: Human rights must be at heart of crime-fighting initiatives

'The visit to Jamaica by the UK Metropolitan Police Commissioner and Chairperson of the Metropolitan Police Authority offers a unique opportunity to explore how both countries can contribute to ensure...

Colombia: Amnesty International meets President-elect in London

'We welcome this opportunity to begin a dialogue with the incoming administration and to raise our concern that some of the measures he has planned to strengthen security could exacerbate further the...

Australia/UK: Failure to protect child asylum-seekers' worrying

The Children's rights, aged 12 and 13, who may be ethnic Hazara Afghans, reportedly sought protection in the British Consulate building after escaping the Woomera Detention Centre, where they had been...

Yemen: human rights violations have no justification

Amnesty International is deeply concerned that legal and institutional safeguards introduced in Yemen in recent years have been sidelined in the wake of the events of 11 September 2001 in the name of...

Burma: Forced labour, extortion, displacement and land confiscation - the rural life

In a new report, the organisation describes how civilians in eastern Burma are struggling to survive as the tatmadaw continues to make demands on their livelihood. Some 100 migrants were interviewed...

Israel/Occupied Territories/Palestinian Authority: Amnesty International condemns attack on bus near West Bank settlement

'There is no justification for the targeting of civilians,' Amnesty International said. 'The fact that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories are illegal under international humanitarian law...

International Criminal Court: Immunity for peace-keepers is a set back for international justice

What the Security Council has done is to attempt to amend a treaty agreed between state parties, a power in this case only given to the Assembly of States Parties. Moreover, the Council is exceeding...

India: Civilians are not legitimate targets

'Civilians are not legitimate targets. All parties to the conflict in Kashmir must respect international humanitarian standards and spare civilian lives,' the organisation said. Most of the victims...

USA: Racist police brutality remains endemic in many areas

An incident filmed Saturday night shows an officer from Inglewood (a town near Los Angeles airport) lifting a handcuffed youth in the air and slamming his head onto the hood of a police car. The...

USA: Amnesty International sends observer to pre-trial hearing of American Taleban soldier

A US federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, will hear a defence motion to suppress (exclude from his forthcoming trial) statements Lindh made while in US custody in Afghanistan on the grounds...