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Afghanistan: New warning about human rights ahead of inauguration

Ahead of tomorrow’s inauguration of Hamid Karzai as Afghan president, Amnesty International is urging Mr Karzai to prioritise human rights and the rule of law in his second term to strengthen the...

Amnesty Condemns RBS over funding of cluster bombs

Report shows Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) invests millions in the producers of these shameful and indiscrimate weapons The Royal Bank of Scotland, together with other well known high street financial...

Australia: Government must overturn law which discriminates against Aboriginal people

Slamming decades of failure by Australian governments to address the dire living conditions and discrimination faced by many of the country’s Indigenous peoples, Amnesty International’s Secretary...

Decision to allow secret proceedings in Guantanamo compensation case condemned

Amnesty International has today expressed its deep disappointment after a High Court judge ruled this morning that British intelligence services facing a civil lawsuit over alleged complicity in the...

Guantanamo: There should be no more 'political football' over closure and trials

The US government must redouble efforts to resolve the future of detainees still held at Guantánamo Bay, Amnesty International has said today, after President Barack Obama admitted his administration...

Haiti: Amnesty calls for end to child slavery ahead of universal Children's rights's day

Authorities in Haiti must enact legislation to prevent girls and boys working in conditions that amount to slavery, said Amnesty International ahead of Universal Children's rights’s Day – 20 November...

Egypt: New report castigates government over rockslide deaths

“Egypt’s poor should not have to live … with the threat of being buried alive” - Malcolm Smart The Egyptian authorities must take immediate steps to protect Cairo’s poorest inhabitants living in...

Afghanistan: US-held prisoners must be allowed rights

Fresh call as new US prison at Bagram is unveiled The Obama administration must revise its detention policies in Afghanistan, Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch have...

Iran: Authorities must stop imminent execution of Kurdish man

The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of Sherko Moarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of “enmity against God” over his alleged membership of a proscribed Kurdish organisation, Amnesty...

UK: Hold a tea party on the radio

Amnesty International is appealing to local radio programmes to hold a tea party in the studio over the next three weeks, to mark the launch of its new AMNESTEA fundraising drive. All over the country...