Press Releases
The announcement by the Prosecutor of the ICC of the commencement of an investigation follows a preliminary examination of crimes committed in the country since July 2002. In a positive step, the...
As people continue to be arrested, imprisoned and even killed because of their sexuality, and less than a month after the murder of Brian Williamson, Jamaica’s best known gay rights activist...
The report, ‘Russian Federation: Chechen Republic - 'Normalization' in whose eyes? ’, examining human rights abuses against civilians in Chechnya, tracks the spread of abuses into Ingushetia...
Nikolai Girenko was well-known and widely respected for his work and research on racism and discrimination in the Russian Federation. He was Head of the Minority Rights Commission at the St Petersburg...
The organisation is calling for a comprehensive, nation-wide programme of disarmament as a priority, assisted by the new UN Stabilisation Mission, MINUSTAH. The report reveals that armed groups are...
The organisation was highly critical of the Sudanese government which it says is ultimately responsible for human rights atrocities committed in Darfur. It also called on the international community...
The armed group is said to have given an ultimatum to the Saudi Arabian authorities to release some prisoners held by its security forces by Friday 18 June 2004, or it would carry out the killing of...
The report – Measuring Misery, detention of asylum seekers in Northern Ireland: a statistical analysis 2002-2004 – has been produced by the Refugee Action Group, a coalition of refugee and human...
Zaw Thet Htwe is the editor of a popular Burmese sports magazine, First Eleven . He was initially sentenced to death in November 2003 but his sentence was reduced to three years imprisonment on 12 May...
In a little-publicised policy change, the government has been forcibly returning male Somalis to Mogadishu since 31 March 2004, with six people known to have been sent there by early June. In the last...