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Mexico: Evidence of cover-up and failure to investigate sexual abuse claims

Mexico States authorities failed to seriously investigate allegations of at least 23 reports of sexual abuse by security forces in San Salvador Atenco, during police operations five months, Amnesty...

Africa: Forced evictions reach crisis levels

Research conducted by Amnesty International and the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) reveals that the practice of forced evictions has reached epidemic proportions in Africa...

UK: Government must accept return of residents held at Guantánamo

Responding to reports today in The Guardian newspaper that the USA has offered to return to the UK nearly all of the UK residents currently held at Guantánamo Bay, Amnesty International is calling on...

Pakistan/UK: Leeds man’s stay of execution in Pakistan has passed, execution could happen any day

President Musharraf says it is beyond his power to intervene The stay of execution on joint UK-Pakistani national, Mirza Tahir Hussain, expired yesterday (Sunday 1 October), meaning that he could...

Worldwide: Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu call for tough laws to control “global horror story” of Arms

Religious leaders - including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The Dalai Lama, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain and Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious...

Worldwide: New report reveals global arms industry exploiting major loopholes in arms regulations

The globalisation of the arms industry has opened up major loopholes in all current arms export regulations, allowing sales to human rights abusers and countries under arms embargoes, according to a...

Pakistan: Musharraf must reveal fate of hundreds of ‘War on Terror’ detainees

New report condemns wave of ‘disappearances’ and US role Amnesty International is calling on Pakistan’s President Musharraf to reveal the fate of Pakistan’s ‘war on terror’ detainees, as it published...

USA: Congress has rubber-stamped torture and other abuses

By passing the Military Commissions Act, the United States Congress has, in effect, given its stamp of approval to human rights violations committed by the USA in the “war on terror”, said Amnesty...

NI: Final line-up confirmed for Stand Up For Justice comedy benefit

More comedians join the bill Amnesty International has announced the final line-up for its annual Stand Up For Justice comedy benefit, part of the Magners Comedy programme at Belfast Festival at Queen...

NI: The Ball is coming to Belfast

Special Live and uncensored screening of the Secret Policeman's Ball to take place at the Black Box Tickets have just gone on sale for a special live and uncensored ‘cinecast’ in Belfast of Amnesty...