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The report, Libya: Time to make human rights a reality , lays out the findings of the Amnesty International’s recent visit to Libya in February 2004, the human rights organisation’s first such...

The Commission failed to adopt draft resolutions on China, Chechnya, Zimbabwe and the detainees in Guantanamo Bay, repeatedly using the “no action” procedure to prevent discussion of resolutions...

Amnesty International said: “Indiscriminate attacks have devastating effects and reveal a complete disregard for the most fundamental human right - the right to life. This became tragically clear...

Amnesty International criticised the new proceedings as a replay of the original trial, designed to uphold the original verdict. Amnesty International delegates observed several sessions of the...

The organisation’s new report Laboratory of War: Repression and Violence in Arauca depicts civilians caught between warring guerrillas, army units and their paramilitary allies. The crisis in Arauca...

Following several years’ research in this area by an expert Sub-Commission at the UN, and further discussion at the UN over the last few weeks, this formal request was made by the UK government on...

“The US government has offered a vision of a world in which arbitrary unchallengeable detentions, potentially for life, are acceptable. “The Supreme Court must reject this vision and extract the...

“Mordechai Vanunu should be allowed to exercise his rights to freedom of movement, association and expression in Israel and should be allowed to leave the country if he wishes,” said Amnesty...

The Amnesty International UK Media Awards, sponsored by Pci: Live, recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge the significant contribution made to the UK public’s awareness and...

Alarming reports about the systematic rape of hundreds of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights by the government-backed armed militia, the ‘Janjawid’, are coming from the...