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Alirio Uribe, who works since more than 10 years for the victims of human rights violations, said that this great honor 'belongs foremost to all the human rights defenders (HRDs) in Colombia who...
'Grigory Pasko's conviction and continuing arrest solely for exercising his basic human right of freedom of expression is yet another example of the denial of justice that is the fate of other victims...
'Despite commitment by Southern African governments to eliminate 'all forms of discrimination [and] all forms of violence against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls'...
Moreover, in view of the massive publicity around this case and the inadequacies of the Russian justice system, there was very little chance that Akhmed Zakayev would have been given a fair trial in...
Amnesty International believes that judicial independence is the vital element in any accessible justice system. By refusing to abide by recent rulings of the Court of Appeal, the highest court in the...
The statement attributed to the Secretary General of Amnesty International is an extract from a previous statement published by the organisation in September in response to statements and documents...
The letter also expressed concern that a new decree effectively grants impunity for any human rights violations committed before February 2001. Decree No. 56 for 2002 issued by His Majesty on 23...
In a new report published today, the organisation details 13 cases of human rights defenders who have been victimised because of their legitimate human rights work. These include activists, lawyers...
'The charges on which Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Nadia 'Abd al-Nur were convicted and imprisoned in a retrial in July 2002 are a pretext to punish them for criticising government policies. They should be...
On 22 November the League issued a report, which outlines two draft bills due to be submitted to the next Diet session beginning in January. The bills include: an amendment to the criminal code to...