Press Releases

Despite the extent of this abuse, some governments are deliberately attempting to exclude reference to obligatory human rights standards from the Program of Action to be agreed at the UN Conference...

'Once again we call on the Slovak authorities to respect their commitments under international treaties and to protect the fundamental rights of all individuals in Slovakia, without discriminating on...

'For Mexico to turn over a new leaf and finally rid itself of the shame of torture, what is needed is a root and branch reform of the judicial system and the promotion among its members of a culture...

'Like the other 'Strike Hard' campaigns before it, this crackdown is unlikely to have a lasting impact on China's growing crime problem. The campaign is nothing short of an execution frenzy - a huge...

'The Argentine government must now cooperate in the search for justice in relation to the human rights violations committed during the military government (1976 - 1983) and to redress the persistent...

In the letters, Amnesty International detailed a number of recent human rights abuses directed against the Guatemalan judiciary, journalists, and human rights workers, both Guatemalan and foreign in...

The new guidelines reportedly allow Israeli security forces to take action against 'known terrorists' even if they are not on the verge of committing an attack. According to media reports, Israel's...

'The People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), paid and armed by the government, has been perpetuating a pattern of systematic abuses,' the organisation said. Fifteen Children's rights...

'The jury's decison means that attributing the failures of Brazil's policing system to the misdemeanours of individual policemen is no longer acceptable,' the organisation added. 'Those in high...

'This Decree comes as a culmination of recent trends marked by the government's tendency to swiftly issue 'legal notices' in order to nullify the effect of court rulings or prevent legal challenges...