Press Releases
'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...
'If the law in its present form is enacted it will place South Africa in breach of its international and regional obligations and may lead to human rights violations', the organization said. It will...
Long-awaited legislation to control the Arms, also announced today in the form of a promised draft bill, while also welcome, is almost certain to fail to reach the statute books during the current...
The human rights organisation calls on President Lagos to resist the strong military pressure which has been placed on him to consider that the order of Augusto Pinochet's house arrest may constitute...
The long overdue move to update British arms controls dating back to the beginning of the Second World War follows a change in the historic reluctance of the Department of Trade and Industry to impose...