Press Releases

In the past 12 months, the Foreign Office has played a constructive role in the fight against torture and in promoting international abolition of the death penalty. The UK has also provided useful...

Incidents such as the recent killing of three teachers working at the Freeport gold and copper mine, and allegations in the past that Indonesian security personnel guarding the mining operations have...

Let us not forget that these same governments turned a blind eye to Amnesty International's reports of widespread human rights violations in Iraq before the Gulf War. They remained silent when...

'Greece: In the shadow of impunity. Ill-treatment and the misuse of firearms' documents 66 cases of alleged human rights violations. While the majority of the victims of such violations are Roma...

The organisation called on the state authorities to ensure that all necessary steps are taken to provide protection to civilians in the state, regardless of political or religious affiliation...

'After over 20 years of suffering, the survivors and relatives of victims of the massacres have a right to know the truth and to see those responsible brought to justice for crimes under international...

'Two thirds of the known executions of child offenders in the past decade were carried out in the USA', the organisation said. 'It is clear that the United States is the world's leading perpetrator of...

Children's rights have been particularly affected by the armed conflict and related human rights and humanitarian crises in Burundi. Their most basic civil, political, economic, social and cultural...

The organisation is concerned at the lack of co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (the Tribunal) in the Hague, as well as the rarity of domestic war crimes...

'The anger felt by Jamaican citizens at the appalling levels of violent crime suffered by their society is understandable. However, the government must not pander to this anger by promising the...