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'Using the death penalty against the mentally ill and those convicted of crimes committed when they were Children's rights clearly flouts international safeguards,' Amnesty International said. 'The...
Many asylum-seekers are fleeing the risk of imprisonment, torture or death and are forced to take desperate steps to reach safety. The discovery of 54 men and four Women's rights's rightss rights's...
The draft law would allow the Chief of General Staff of Israel's armed forces to imprison indefinitely without charge or trial any person who is a member of a force fighting against Israel or who...
Children's rights have been among the principal victims of the internal armed conflict in Sierra Leone and have suffered both disproportionately and on an unprecedented scale. Hundreds of thousands of...
The guards acquitted last Friday were accused of setting up prison yard fights among rival prison gangs in Corcoran Prison's High Security Unit between 1989 and 1995, and then shooting at them when...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has published today the Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the...
Although Freetown is relatively stable, Amnesty International researchers in the country are receiving reports of continuing human rights abuses in areas of Sierra Leone controlled by rebel forces or...
In a widely trailed speech to a high-level European Union asylum conference in Lisbon, Mr Straw is expected to call for the rewriting of the Convention to require asylum seekers to apply for shelter...
Amnesty International documented thousands of cases of torture across the world in 1999. Throughout Europe, torture and ill-treatment by police often racially motivated, was the most widely reported...
'The way a handful of governments have been allowed to hold hostage the review process illustrates the broader reality for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights : when it comes to...