Press releases in 2006

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A new ICM survey commissioned by the End Violence Against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights campaign (EVAW) has found that 42% of young people know girls whose boyfriends have...

Amnesty International today (Tues 21 Nov) issued a fresh call for a comprehensive and independent UN-led inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law committed during this year's Israel...

40% OF YOUNG PEOPLE KNOW GIRLS WHOSE BOYFRIENDS HAVE COERCED OR PRESSURISED THEM INTO SEX - NEW SURVEY 42% KNOW GIRLS WHOSE BOYFRIENDS HAVE HIT THEM ICM Survey Also Shows That Majority Of Young People...

The Government of Sudan agreed "in principle" to a "hybrid operation" of UN and AU peacekeepers in Darfur in a meeting in Addis Ababa with the African Union, the United Nations, representatives of...

Amnesty International today restated their opposition to PSNI proposals to introduce 50,000-volt electro-shock Tasers, as it made its submission to a police consultation (which closes on Monday 20th...

In reaction to the news that British man Mirza Tahir Hussain has had his death sentence in Pakistan commuted to a life sentence today (16 November) Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim...

A new report released today (16 November) by Amnesty International reveals the exclusion of Romani Children's rights from primary education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the...

At least 50 people have died and over 100 have been injured after an attack on a camp for internally displaced people in Batticaloa, Eastern Sri Lanka, according to Tamil Tiger sources. In response...

** Amnesty researcher in Gaza available for interview ** The killing this morning of 18 civilians in the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun, victims of Israeli shelling, was an appalling act, Amnesty...