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Spain: New report urges action on Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's rights

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...

Iraq: Human rights proceedings welcomed but concern over handling of Saddam Hussein's court appearance

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...

Sudan: Those responsible for war crimes must be held accountable

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 urges the Dutch EU Presidency to close the gap between rhetoric and practice in EU human rights policy

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...

Iraq: New report says US must clarify fate of prisoners after handover and stop holding 'ghost' detainees

In a new report, Amnesty International expresses concern that the US has recently said that it intends to hold without charge between 4,000 and 5,000 detainees despite a legal requirement to release...

USA: Supreme court ruling hailed as step toward restoring rule of law at GuantAnamo Bay

Amnesty International said: 'Today's ruling that the US courts have jurisdiction to consider challenges to the lawfulness of such detentions moves us one step closer to justice and accountability in...

UN Torture Day: No room for complacency - fight against torture must be reinforced

Amnesty International UK Director, Kate Allen, said: “The international community must confront attempts to legitimise torture and ill-treatment head on. “The recent graphic evidence of the...

China: Annual Execution Spree Looms on UN Anti-Drugs Day

“We have seen an annual spree of executions in China in the run-up to UN International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in previous years” said Amnesty International. “Yet no...

Democratic Republic of Congo: International Criminal Court's investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity a major step forward

The announcement by the Prosecutor of the ICC of the commencement of an investigation follows a preliminary examination of crimes committed in the country since July 2002. In a positive step, the...

'Sex, Love And Homophobia' - New Amnesty International Book on Sexuality and Human Rights

As people continue to be arrested, imprisoned and even killed because of their sexuality, and less than a month after the murder of Brian Williamson, Jamaica’s best known gay rights activist...