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MEXICO: Justice and safety for the Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights of Ciudad Juarez

The statement came as Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights from all over the world gather in Guadalajara, Mexico, for the International Forum of the Association for Women's...

Jordan: Acquittal of political prisoners welcomed

Five of the men - 'Abd al-Naser Shehadeh al-Khamayseh, Samer Mahmud 'Amer; Ra'ed 'Abd al-Karim al-Kafafi, Ahmad Husayn 'Abdallah and Samir Sa'id Shabayeh - were then sentenced to life imprisonment...

Malaysia: Government passes up opportunity to right grave injustice

The five prisoners of conscience Tian Chua, Saari Sungib, Hishamuddin Rais, Mohd Ezam Nor and Raja Petra Kamaruddin were arrested on 10 April 2001 and accused of plotting to overthrow the government...

Zimbabwe: Local elections marred by state-sponsored violence

'Once again, government authorities have failed to ensure that elections take place in a climate free from harassment and intimidation. All allegations of human rights violations, including torture...

Brazil: Espírito Santo state under siege - authorities cannot afford to make mistakes

The people of Espírito Santo continue to be trapped between the violence of criminal gangs that often operate with the knowledge or complicity of state agents, and state institutions that have...

Colombia: Paramilitary leaders should answer for human rights violations

'The international community should insist that the Colombian government finally takes firm and decisive action to combat paramilitary groups, including arresting their leaders and severing their...

EU compromise on US impunity agreements a setback for world court

Although today's decision requires member states not to enter into agreements with the US which would lead to impunity, it is worded in such a way that some states may use it as an excuse to enter...

Israel/Occupied Territories: New report reveals killing of Children's rights increasing

The 29-page report, 'Killing the Future: Children's rights in the Line of Fire', published shortly before a UN Committee on the Rights of the Child meeting on Israel and almost exactly two years since...

Tajikistan: Lethal Secrets

'Relentlessly cruel and arbitrary,' is how the report 'Tajikistan: Deadly secrets - the death penalty in law and practice', describes the pattern of the secret use of the death penalty that Amnesty...

Burundi: Accountability protects human rights

Speaking at the end of an official visit to Burundi, Irene Khan said that the military commanders of units suspected to be responsible for human rights violations must be suspended pending full and...