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This renewed call includes the arrest of the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his supreme Commander Ratko Mladic, both charged with genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the...

'These six years have been marked by alleged police and judicial incompetence and failures, which resulted in the families of the victims being denied justice,' Amnesty International said. Amnesty...

The lack of progress made by the Georgian government in key areas has been highlighted by the UN Committee as it concluded its current consideration of the country's compliance with the International...

'We have already received evidence that ZANU-PF officials in charge of distributing food supplies in many rural areas are discriminating against those believed to be supporters of the MDC,' said...

Amnesty International groups in Belfast as well as France, Germany, the USA and Norway had all called for Jigme Sangpo's release. The Belfast Amnesty International group had spent two years...

The report, 'Nepal: A spiralling human rights crisis' , shows that both the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN, Maoist) and government security forces have engaged in 'disappearances', abductions, torture...

The organisation repeated its call for international human rights monitors to be deployed with the aim of protecting Palestinian and Israeli civilians. Amnesty International first called for human...

Since 14 March, tens of people have been held incommunicado in Bata, the main city in the main continental part on the country, for alleged links with the Fuerza Democrática Republicana (FDR)...

Ronald Camille, linked to popular organisations supportive of Haiti's ruling party Fanmi Lavalas, was charged with killing activist Fritzner Jean outside the Parliament building on 10 September 2001...

'If those responsible for these killings are not identified and tried in a prompt, impartial and transparent fashion, Haiti's aspirations to the rule of law will be irreparably damaged,' the...