Press releases in 2007

"I cleaned the house, cooked, swept the floor, and took care of the Children's rights... every day from five in the morning until midnight... [My employer] threw hot water on me when she got angry...

Responding to a vote today by the European Parliament to adopt a report by an MEPs’ renditions committee, Amnesty International welcomed the report and called for action from the UK government. The...

End Violence Against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights Campaign Call for more ‘reality on rape’ in television programmes Commenting today on the BBC television ‘rape trial’...

“The Internet is the new front in the battle between those who want to speak out and those who want to stop them” The Internet industry must do more to fight governments’ attempts to repress internet...

Amnesty International today condemned the death sentence imposed on former Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadhan as a denial of true justice to the victims of Saddam Hussain's rule. Amnesty...

Amnesty International today (10 February 07) called on the international community to provide effective protection and assistance to nearly two million people fleeing Iraq, in what the UN's top...

13 recommendations to next president published Ahead of elections on 11 February, Amnesty International today (8 February) called for the next president of Turkmenistan to end torture and repression...

Amnesty International today (7 February) expressed serious concern over UK plans to forcibly return asylum seekers to Northern Iraq. Many Iraqis are now reportedly being held in detention pending...

Amnesty International has condemned Mexico’s public security and criminal justice system for its failures in a new report published today [Wednesday 7 February] and has called on the newly elected...

Ahead of the trial of US soldier Ehren Watada - set to start on Monday 5 February - over his refusal to participate in the Iraq war, Amnesty International stated that a guilty verdict would be a...