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Angola: Catholic church involved in forced evictions

Amnesty International today has released a report revealing the scale and extent of forced evictions in Angola – and is particularly concerned at forced evictions carried out by Angolan authorities –...

Brazil: 69-Year old woman shot dead over land feud

Another victim in Brazil’s indigenous people’s struggle for land Kuretê Lopes, a 69-year-old indigenous woman from the Guarani-Kaiowá people, has become the latest victim of land-related violence that...

Iraq: Execution of Saddam aides condemned

Amnesty International today (15 January) condemned the executions of Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the former head of Iraq's revolutionary court as a brutal violation of the right to life and a...

Northern Ireland: Human rights prize awarded to Shankill Road primary school

Pupils at Malvern Primary School, near Belfast's Shankill Road, will be presented today (15 January) with a hand-made “friendship bench”, their prize for winning a cross-border human rights art...

UK: Amnesty asks book trade for donations to “The Big Book Sale”

Amnesty International today asked publishers, distributors and booksellers to show their support for human rights by donating books to its “Big Booksale”, the UK’s only nationwide charity booksale...

Cymru: Bae Guantánamo Bay – Aelodau Amnest yng Nghymru yn gwrthdystio tu allan i swyddfa Llysgenhaeth yr Unol Daleithiau

Lleoliad: Swyddfa Llysgennad yr UD, Llys y Deml, Ffordd y Gadeirlan, Caerdydd Pryd: 10.30am, Dydd Iau, 11 Ionawr 2007. Llythyr i’w gyflwyno am 11.00am Ar ddiwrnod nodi pumed ‘pen blwydd’ (11 Ionawr)...

Scotland: Guantanamo demonstration at US Consulate in Edinburgh

On the day marking the fifth ‘anniversary’ (11 January) of the first ‘war on terror’ detainees being transported to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, Amnesty International issued a...

USA/Somalia: What measures were taken to protect civilians in air strikes?

Amnesty International has written to the US government expressing deep concern about reports that at least 30 civilians have been killed in recent US air attacks in southern Somalia. In a letter to US...

Wales: Guantánamo Bay – Amnesty members in Wales protest outside the US Embassy office in Cardiff to condemn five year ‘anniversary’.

Where: US Embassy Office, Temple Court, Cathedral Road, Cardiff When: 10.30am, Thursday 11th January 2007. Letter to be handed in at 11.00am. On the day marking the fifth ‘anniversary’ (11 January) of...

India: Upper Assam killings deplored

Amnesty International deplores the targeting and killing of at least 69 non-Assamese people living in Upper Assam in North East India over the last six days. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA...