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New Amnesty report on consequences of deadly irresponsible Arms Amnesty International today joined thousands of campaigners in more than 100 countries to call upon government leaders to develop a...
The official hearing on a challenge to the Indian government’s decision to grant environmental clearance to a Vedanta subsidiary’s bauxite mine in Niyamgiri, Orissa, is resuming at the National...
Up to 3,000 Afghans may be on death row, say Afghan MPs Amnesty International is urging the Iranian authorities to reveal how many Afghan nationals it is holding on death row amid reports 45 Afghans...
The Zimbabwe authorities must stop harassing political opponents and government critics, Amnesty International said today, following the acquittal of a critic of President Robert Mugabe accused of...
Amnesty International has welcomed a Lithuanian court’s u-turn decision to allow Saturday's 2010 Baltic Pride march in Vilnius to go ahead. The Supreme Administrative Court decided today that the...
Amnesty International has welcomed a Lithuanian court’s u-turn decision to allow Saturday's 2010 Baltic Pride march in Vilnius to go ahead. The Supreme Administrative Court decided today that the...
The Kurdistan Regional Government must take immediate steps to investigate the abduction and murder earlier this week of Sardasht Osman, 23, a university student who worked as a journalist for the...
Candidates in the Philippines presidential election should outline their plans to combat the political violence which has resulted in the killing of at least five candidates and sixteen campaign...
A 60-year old Eritrean asylum seeker will be at risk of arrest, incommunicado detention and torture if the UK removes him to Eritrea as planned, warned Amnesty International today. The forced removal...
Save Baltic Pride now Amnesty International has condemned the suspension by a Lithuanian court of the 2010 “Baltic Pride” march, set to take place in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Saturday 8 May...