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In recent days, Amnesty International has campaigned on behalf of a 19-year-old Uzbekistani facing execution despite strong indications that he was brutally beaten into making a murder confession; a...
Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of Amnesty International's Africa Programme, speaking from Lagos, said: "The people of Zimbabwe are being sold out – in the interests of a false 'African solidarity.' This...
The organisation is launching a global petition calling on the Burmese authorities to stop abusing the justice system to silence peaceful political activists and to immediately and unconditionally...
Instead of committing to negotiate a tough and enforceable Arms Treaty, the G8 Foreign Ministers have made no commitments whatsoever to help prevent arms getting into the hands of gross human rights...
Full statement and interviews are available As the human rights situation in Zimbabwe deteriorates, with more than 300,000 people now evicted from their homes by the government, a coalition of more...
Amnesty International said: "Forcible return of these people would violate international human rights and refugee law and standards. There are well founded reasons to believe that if returned they are...
G8 weapons have been exported to countries including Sudan, Burma (Burma), the Republic of Congo, Colombia and the Philippines. The report makes a clear case for the G8 to support UK Foreign Secretary...
The organisation suspects that over 25,000 people who have sought asylum in the UK, including Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights, were detained solely...
The human rights organisation said that the decision would fuel worldwide concern over accounts of torture and ill-treatment, religious humiliation and arbitrary detention emerging from the facility...
Presently the UK has already suspended all arms assistance to Nepal but the situation was recently described by the UK government as "under review".(1) The 27-page report, Nepal: Military assistance...