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Human Rights Must Begin at Home: Amnesty International's Recommendations to the Irish EU Presidency

Amnesty International's report calls for policies that ensure the EU does not abandon its international obligations to protect refugees and for more EU supervision of human rights compliance within EU...

UN: 'Disappearances' Meeting a Vital Step Forward

Amnesty International is calling for the speedy adoption of a treaty giving strong protection against enforced disappearance. Amnesty International said: 'An effective treaty would be a significant...

Florida: Your Messages are Heard - 16-year-old Lionel Tate is Expected to be Freed

When he is released he will then be under house arrest for one year and probation for a further ten tears. He will also have to do 1,000 hours of community service and will receive psychological...

Guantánamo Bay: 'Second Anniversary' Letter to Blair Calls for End to Legal Black Hole

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: 'In our letter to the Prime Minister we have urged that he calls on the US government to ensure legal representation and fair trials are the bottom...

Haiti: Killings Can and Must be Stopped

Amnesty International said: 'Political leaders must immediately address their supporters and demand they stop committing abuses. Police must fulfil their duty to respect and protect the right to...

Mexico: Human Rights Defenders Threatened After Highlighting Police Involvement in Murder

An anonymous caller rang the CEFPRODHAC offices in Reynosa and said: 'Shut your mouths, now,' one day after the organisation's president Arturo Solis appeared in regional newspapers calling for a full...

Sudan: 16-year-old Girl to be Flogged for 'Crime' of Adultery

Following the postponement of the punishment from 20 December to 23 January due to the girl's poor health, Amnesty International is also asking people all over the world to write to the Sudanese...

Sudan: No Peace While Atrocities Continue in the West with 200 Killed this Week

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: 'Amnesty International is receiving reports of hundreds of civilians who have been killed and their villages destroyed, and thousands of people...

Viet Nam: Death Penalty Made a State Secret? What Has Viet Nam got to Hide?

Amnesty International Media Director Lesley Warner said: 'Hiding behind draconian decrees protecting so-called 'state secrets' the Vietnamese authorities are flouting international human rights...

Chile: Threats to Transvestite Human Rights Campaigner

Rodrigo reportedly received an anonymous death threat on 16 December 2003. Two days later, someone one fired a shot at him as he walked on a street in San Felipe, to the west of Santiago. On 20...