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UK: Amnesty welcomes JCHR report and urges UK government to stop failing trafficked people

Amnesty International today (13 October) welcomed the publication of the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ report into human trafficking. The organisation urged the UK government to follow the...

USA/Cuba: Guantánamo ruling - strong disappointment from Amnesty International and Amani Deghayes

Amnesty International has expressed strong disappointment at today's ruling of the Court of Appeal that the UK government is not obliged to intervene on behalf of UK residents held at Guantánamo Bay...

Worldwide: Control Arms Campaign - 77 governments champion resolution for an Arms Treaty

Control Arms Campaign: Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms In a massive show of support for stronger arms controls at the United Nations in...

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Child soldiers abandoned

New Amnesty report reveals majority of girls still unaccounted for At least 11,000 Congolese Children's rights are still with armed groups or unaccounted for – more than two years after the government...

Russia: President Putin must condemn Anna Politkovskaya murder

New letter to President Putin In a new letter to Vladimir Putin, Amnesty International has called on the Russian president to condemn the recent murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya...

Russian Federation: Amnesty International condemns the murder of human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaia

Amnesty International is shocked, saddened and deeply angered by the murder of Anna Politkovskaia, Russian human rights defender and journalist. Amnesty International believes that Anna Politkovskaia...

Mexico: Evidence of cover-up and failure to investigate sexual abuse claims

Mexico States authorities failed to seriously investigate allegations of at least 23 reports of sexual abuse by security forces in San Salvador Atenco, during police operations five months, Amnesty...

Africa: Forced evictions reach crisis levels

Research conducted by Amnesty International and the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) reveals that the practice of forced evictions has reached epidemic proportions in Africa...

UK: Government must accept return of residents held at Guantánamo

Responding to reports today in The Guardian newspaper that the USA has offered to return to the UK nearly all of the UK residents currently held at Guantánamo Bay, Amnesty International is calling on...

Pakistan/UK: Leeds man’s stay of execution in Pakistan has passed, execution could happen any day

President Musharraf says it is beyond his power to intervene The stay of execution on joint UK-Pakistani national, Mirza Tahir Hussain, expired yesterday (Sunday 1 October), meaning that he could...