Press Releases
Today's (Friday 17 October 2003) government response, to the parliamentary committee responsible for scrutinising the new law, shows that the loopholes are being ignored and as a result, British-sold...
Amnesty International has to date recorded over 250 cases of 'disappearance' since members and supporters of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) (Maoist) declared a 'people's war' in February 1996. In...
Official statistics show that the total number of firearm offences in 2002/03 (excluding offences involving air weapons) increased by three per cent. Lesley Warner, Amnesty International UK Media...
According to information received, most of the victims had received bullet wounds. The joint forces' use of large calibre combat ammunition and the tragic consequences of the military operation have...
Amnesty International UK Media Director, Lesley Warner, said: 'By honouring Shirin the Nobel Committee has recognised the critical importance of human rights and the individuals who defend them around...
Arms proliferation and abuse, have reached a critical point, fuelling human rights violations, poverty, and conflict. Someone is killed every minute by armed violence while many more suffer abuse and...
Two years after the beginning of the military action against the Taleban, the Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights of Afghanistan are still subject to horrific abuses, from...
On the eve of the handing over of his reports, four international and domestic human rights non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have urged the United Kingdom and Irish governments to commit...
'Enough time has passed to evaluate the overwhelming evidence that the seven were extrajudicially executed,' Amnesty International said today, 'this seems to be another example of the authorities'...
Thousands of Children's rights are denied their basic rights in Children's rights's homes in Russia, Amnesty International said today (2 October 2003), as it published a new report on Russia's human...