Press Releases
Prisoners in our own homes": Amnesty International's concerns for the rights of minorities in Kosovo/Kosova reports beatings, stabbings, abductions, drive-by shootings and the use of hand grenades to...
The report states that hundreds of thousands of Congolese civilians that have been tortured and killed during fighting over control of natural resources, while the international community has...
The organisation wants UK journalists to support Clara Britos by demanding that the Argentine authorities protect her and her family, allowing Britos to perform her work without threats and harassment...
The pictures reveal that someone has written the words 'Ali Baba - Haram(i)' (which means Ali Baba - thief) in Arabic on the prisoners' chests. The article quotes a US military officer as saying that...
In this year's UNCHR session the draft resolution on Iraq has been continuously postponed in efforts to reach a compromise yet still it fails to include human rights monitors. It also limits the remit...
The winners will be announced at an evening awards ceremony at BAFTA, London, on Thursday 22 May 2003, to be hosted by journalist and broadcaster Charles Wheeler. The Amnesty International UK Media...
Blacks and whites are victims of murder in almost equal numbers in the USA, but 80 per cent of those executed since the death penalty resumed in 1977 were put to death for murders involving white...
Amnesty International said: 'Human rights abuses continue to take place on a daily basis in Chechnya. 'The Commission's lack of action on this situation is a blatant disregard of the suffering of the...
At least three people were killed and 12 injured, including two Children's rights, during an incident yesterday in which US forces exchanged gunfire during a demonstration near the governor's building...
At least three people were killed and 12 injured, including two Children's rights, during an incident yesterday in which US forces exchanged gunfire during a demonstration near the governor's building...