Press Releases
Last week was National Non-Violence Week in the USA. This week, five men are scheduled to be executed in five states -- bringing the year's total to 86. 'These two approaches to confronting violence...
Today's release of Lim Guan Eng -- a leading opposition figure and former parliamentarian -- after serving two-thirds of an 18 month sentence for 'exciting public disaffection with the administration...
As the international peace-keeping force arrives in East Timor%link% , tens of thousands of forcibly displaced East Timorese are at risk of serious human rights violations throughout Indonesia...
On the occasion of the referendum on 26 September 1999 confirming President Hosni Mubarak in office for the fourth time, Amnesty International calls for the implementation of effective safeguards...
In the past two years the Government has ìmade genuine and active commitment to human rights in a number of areasî according to Amnesty International UKÃs second annual audit of the GovernmentÃs...
Open Letter to all Members of the Commission on Human Rights from Amnesty International's Secretary General, Pierre Sane.
Amnesty International is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Tsering Dorjee, a 26 year-old Tibetan who was detained in Haixi prefecture, Qinghai province on 15 August.
Amnesty International has no information as to what the 'habeas corpus' says. It was filed today by the lawyers of Augusto Pinochet as an appeal against a British magistrate's decision to allow his...
The new Indonesian government must recognise the importance of human rights to Indonesia's political, economic and social development, Amnesty International said today in an Open Letter to the new...
'This week has demonstrated that there is grave public concern at ChinaÃs appalling human rights record. Tony BlairÃs failure this week to make a firm public statement on human rights is a slap in...