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Amnesty International UK said: “After many years we could now see a turning point for human rights in Iraq. Tony Blair has a golden opportunity to emphasise its importance in this first visit of the...
In its Advisory Opinion, the ICJ concluded that the construction of the wall by the Israeli army inside the West Bank, including in and around East Jerusalem, violates international human rights and...
The grass-roots action comes as the Control Arms Campaign (Oxfam, Amnesty International and IANSA) publishes figures showing that there is now one gun for every ten people on the planet – that’s...
Amnesty International is calling for all Guantánamo detainees to be released unless they are charged and brought to trial, without recourse to the death penalty, in proceedings that fully meet...
In March 2000, in letters from Tehran’s Evin prison sent to the Head of Judiciary – printed by local newspapers – Akbar Mohammadi stated that he had been ill treated while in custody. He claimed...
Amnesty International’s report, 'Uighurs fleeing persecution as China wages its ‘War on Terror’' , also shows that many Uighurs who had fled to neighbouring countries are being forcibly returned...
According to one recent study, over two million Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in Spain have suffered physical and/or mental violence at the hands of their partners, while...
Amnesty International said: “The beginning of legal proceedings to determine responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed over the last three decades, is to be...
The human rights organisation said that although responsibility for ensuring justice rests primarily with the Sudanese government, the whole international community is obliged to fight impunity...
Amnesty International's detailed recommendations include a call for the proposed EU Human Rights Agency to concentrate on human rights compliance within the EU, and the appointment of an EU Special...