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While welcoming Armenia's willingness to acknowledge problems during this transitional phase in the country's history, Amnesty International strongly urges the government to set about improving its...

'The impunity that these men have enjoyed for nine years is an insult to the suffering of the victims and their families and an offence to natural justice,' Amnesty International said today. The three...

Adriana Portillo's two young Children's rights and an 18-month-old half sister were kidnapped and ' disappeared ' by the Guatemalan security forces in 1981. Other members of her family were also...

On 14 November, Carsten Jurgensen who works at Amnesty International's International Secretariat in London, visited the polling station of the Khalid Ben al-Walid school in the parliamentary election...

'For many years Amnesty International has been campaigning for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners of conscience, fair trials for political prisoners, and investigations into all...

'Approximately one million refugees and displaced people are still unable to return to their homes or rebuild their lives elsewhere,' Amnesty International added. Massive human rights violations took...

'There are very worrying signs that an already volatile situation in Chiapas is worsening in the run-up to President-elect Vicente Fox assuming power on 1 December, and Governor-elect for Chiapas...

Key concerns regarding this trial: • Amnesty International is concerned that the State Supreme Security Court does not guarantee international standards for fair trial , in particular the right for...

'We are calling on Governor Bush to act in accordance with his claim to be a compassionate leader and in line with his contention that Texas has become a 'beacon' state under his governorship,'...

Juan Raul Garza is scheduled to become the first federal death row prisoner to be executed since 1963. President Clinton has the power to commute his death sentence. Amnesty International is urging...