Press Releases
'We are delighted at the support and encouragement we have received for the proposal from the highest authorities in Lebanon, from human rights activists and from various representatives of civil...
'The summoning this week of senior military officers for questioning by a parliamentary inquiry about human rights violations, committed during anti-insurgency operations in Aceh, is a step in the...
Against all the odds 'A', a 59-year-old medical doctor in Baghdad, bribed a prison officer and fled the country. She told her story to Amnesty International just three weeks ago. Her crime? She was...
As a major new report, The Arms Fixers, released this week shows, EU-based arms brokering and shipping agents have transferred significant quantities of arms, mostly small arms and light weapons, to...
Those killed included 13 Children's rights . They were amongst 3,000 civilians displaced from their homes who had sought safety in the compound of the church as fighting escalated in the area. While...
'Instead of quelling the escalating unrest in the region, the Nigerian government may have opened the door to further human rights violations,' the human rights organisation said. Residents fleeing...
The US-born priest - known in his adopted Brazil as 'Padre Chico' - died of a heart attack on 19 November 1999, aged 59. 'Padre Chico's death is a shock and a great loss,' said Javier ZuÃ’iga...
and sexually abused in police custody over several days earlier this year, demonstrating a continuing cycle of violence against young people in Turkish police stations, Amnesty International warned...
people, because these are the people mainly left in the town. The fighters never suffer; it's always the peaceful civilians. So many people died and so many people were like me; I am just a drop in...
Amnesty International is calling for legislation to prevent UK transfers from contributing to human rights abuses abroad, but despite last yearÃs White Paper on the issue receiving cross-party...