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May 26 2011 12:00 am
‘Include Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in the political process’ message needed Leaders of the G8 industrialised nations should take bold action to support human rights in...
May 25 2011 12:00 am
‘These two men have been trapped in a judicial vortex’ - Nicola Duckworth
May 25 2011 12:00 am
Amnesty International has warned that anti-personnel mines could litter the Libyan coastal town of Misratah, amid new evidence that Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi’s forces placed them in residential areas...
May 25 2011 12:00 am
Forces allied to both former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and incumbent Alassane Ouattara committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during six months of deadly violence following disput...
May 25 2011 12:00 am
‘ It was a vintage year for human rights journalism ’ - Kate Allen Northern Ireland journalist Eamonn McCann has been victorious at the Amnesty International Media Awards, collecting a human rights re...
May 25 2011 12:00 am
The world’s best known political prisoner pays tribute to the world’s largest human rights organisation and looks forward to the day Amnesty no longer exists Amnesty International, the world’s largest...
May 24 2011 12:00 am
Top UK journalists will tonight (24 May) join together in a ‘mass tweet’ to the President of Azerbaijan, urging President Aliyev to immediately and unconditionally release jailed newspaper editor Eynu...
May 24 2011 12:00 am
‘It was a vintage year for human rights journalism’ - Kate Allen Amnesty International UK has announced the winners of its prestigious annual media awards, this year celebrating its 20th year. The win...
May 23 2011 12:00 am
With hundreds killed, UN referral to International Criminal Court needed New European Union sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria should prompt the UN and Arab League to take tougher action...
May 23 2011 12:00 am
Amnesty International today (23 May) responded to the report of the public inquiry into allegations of security force collusion in the murder of the solicitor Rosemary Nelson. Halya Gowan, who researc...