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The organisation urged the parties to the talks to make sure that the protection of basic human rights is at the heart of any further peace negotiations. As recommended by the United Nations, the...

The report, Arbitrary, discriminatory, and cruel: An aide-mémoire to 25 years of judicial killing, recalls some 200 illustrative cases of the men and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights...

'This constitutes the most serious failure of the Accords since the issue of human rights was central to the peace process,' the organisation added. Amnesty International stressed that - although many...

'The US is placing these people in a legal limbo. They deny that they are Prisoners of War (POWs), while at the same time failing to provide them with the most basic protections of any person deprived...

''Quiet diplomacy' should not become silent acquiescence to continuing gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe,' Amnesty International said. 'President Robert Mugabe has made promises of human...

After four Israeli soldiers were killed on 9 January 2002 in an attack by Hamas on a military post on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) entered Rafah with...

'Sectarian violence has troubled Pakistanis, particularly those belonging to minorities, for a long time and we have repeatedly called on the government to protect the safety and security of the...

One person was killed and scores were injured on Saturday 12 January 2002, when uniformed police officers opened fire, using live ammunition, to disperse a crowd which had gathered in front of Uganda...

Most at risk are the people living in the demilitarized zone, an area compromising five municipalities of the departments of Caquetá and Meta which the government had conceded to Colombia's main...

'The time has come for SADC to send a strong and consistent message that the situation in Zimbabwe has grown worse, that the Zimbabwean authorities should not allow human rights to be violated with...