Press Releases
'Torture is employed as an instrument by the authorities to keep the population living in a state of fear,' the organisation said. The victims of torture in Burma are political activists, criminal...
On 14 November Alfred Harding was shot dead by police in La Clery, near St. Castries. Media reports have suggested that he was ordered by an off-duty police officer to lie down and was shot twice...
In November 2000, President A.R. Robinson from Trinidad and Tobago, called the adoption of the Rome Statute 'a most significant achievement in the history of mankind.' In 1989 he first introduced the...
'The Indonesian government is allowing its security forces to target humanitarian workers in Aceh, just as it allowed militias to target such workers in West Timor,' the two human rights organizations...
'The discussions in Paris on possible international financial and material assistance to Burundi could help immensely to lay the foundations for a sustainable peace,' Amnesty International said....
'President Estrada's commutation of these death sentences is a major step in the struggle to uphold respect for that most central of human rights - the right to life,' Amnesty International said today...
A delegation from Amnesty International's International Secretariat in London met with government officials, political parties, trade union activists, lawyers and human rights victims. Death Penalty A...
'Of course, we welcome that Juan Raul Garza will not be executed as scheduled on 12 December', Amnesty International said. 'Nevertheless, President Clinton has missed a key opportunity to live up to...
Throughout the world, Children's rights are being subjected to horrific violence and abuse, according to a new Amnesty International report published ahead of Human Rights Day (December 10). A part of...
As the European Union (EU) considers the first steps towards integration of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) into the EU, Amnesty International's report seeks to remind the international community...