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USA Marking Human Rights Week With Two Executions
Wednesday, 12 December 2001, 9:54 am | Amnesty International
The week President Bush has decided to dedicate to human rights will be marked by two more executions in Georgia and Texas, Amnesty International warned today. More >>
Peace and Human Rights: The Unbreakable Bond
Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 12:55 am | Amnesty International
As I speak, Amnesty International's global membership is poised to celebrate Human Rights Day on December 10th. As I speak, Irene Khan, Amnesty International's new Secretary General, is in Pakistan meeting refugees that have fled in fear from Afghanistan. More >>
1st International Human Rights Day of the 21st C.
Tuesday, 11 December 2001, 12:51 am | Amnesty International
Jalozai Afghan refugee camp (Peshawar, Pakistan) -- As the world marks Human Rights Day, amidst global turmoil, world leaders beating the drum of war, and human rights abuses, Amnesty International is calling on the global human rights movement to stand ... More >>
Aung San Suu Kyi Still Under House Arrest
Monday, 10 December 2001, 12:46 am | Amnesty International
Tomorrow more than 30 Nobel Peace Prize laureates will gather in Oslo to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize. Yet one of its most well-known recipients, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the head of Myanmar's main opposition party, the National League ... More >>
Refugees fleeing the war an intl. responsbility
Monday, 10 December 2001, 12:34 am | Amnesty International
Peshawar: Amnesty International has been interviewing Afghan refugees on the border with Pakistan and is reiterating its call on the international community, and in particular the US and the UK governments, to take urgent action to assist the refugees ... More >>
Video Footage Strengthens The Case For Inquiry
Monday, 10 December 2001, 12:33 am | Amnesty International
"The video footage which has emerged today is alarming and strengthens the case for an urgent inquiry into what happened at the fort," Amnesty International said today. More >>
The spiral of revenge must stop immediately
Thursday, 6 December 2001, 11:49 am | Amnesty International
After a series of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians and two days of Israeli air attacks on Palestinian towns in Gaza and the West Bank, Amnesty International called today for an end to the killings of civilians in Israel and the Occupied Territories. More >>
Australia: Asylum seekers - where to now?
Thursday, 6 December 2001, 11:35 am | Amnesty International
Returning from a research mission to Nauru, Amnesty International delegate Dr John Pace said today that, "Off-loading asylum-seekers onto Pacific island nations is an unsustainable and inhumane policy which must be urgently addressed." More >>
Inquiry into Qala-i-Jhangi fort killings
Thursday, 6 December 2001, 10:45 am | Amnesty International
Afghanistan: Inquiry into Qala-i-Jhangi fort killings must not be swept under the carpet More >>
Amnesty Secretary General to visit Pakistan
Wednesday, 5 December 2001, 3:48 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International`s new Secretary General, Irene Khan, will be visiting Pakistan from 8 to 14 December. She will be discussing a human rights agenda for Afghanistan with victims, refugees, human rights groups, representatives of government and civil ... More >>
Human rights must not be sacrificed for security
Wednesday, 5 December 2001, 3:46 pm | Amnesty International
As the US Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings today on the post-11 September detentions in the USA, to which the Attorney General will testify, Amnesty International called once again on the US authorities not to allow human rights to be sacrificed ... More >>
No Sustainable Peace Without Human Rights
Wednesday, 5 December 2001, 10:28 am | Amnesty International
While bombings continue in Afghanistan, violence surges in the Middle East and emergency legislations are being rushed through Parliaments, the Centennial Nobel Peace Prize will be celebrated in Oslo between 6 and 10 December 2001, in this atmosphere of ... More >>
Respect Of 4th Geneva Convention Must Be Ensured
Wednesday, 5 December 2001, 10:27 am | Amnesty International
Israel: Respect Of Fourth Geneva Convention Must Be Ensured By High Contracting Parties Meeting In Geneva More >>
Amnesty condemns deliberate killings of civilians
Tuesday, 4 December 2001, 2:03 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today condemned the deliberate attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa which killed at least 25 Israeli civilians including four children, and left more than 200 wounded. More >>
Afghanistan: Mazar-I-Sharif Inquiry Latest
Friday, 30 November 2001, 11:03 am | Amnesty International
Following reports that Amnesty International has been invited, by the United Front, to investigate the killings of hundreds of prisoners and others within Qala-i-Jhangi, a fort on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, the organization has said that it is ready ... More >>
New AI report on the US death penalty
Wednesday, 28 November 2001, 5:28 pm | Amnesty International
USA: No return to execution. New AI report on the US death penalty as a barrier to extradition More >>
Call For Inquiry Into Qala-i-Jhangi Violence
Wednesday, 28 November 2001, 5:27 pm | Amnesty International
Following news reports of hundreds of killings during clashes within the Qala-i-Jhangi, a fort on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, Amnesty International is calling on the United Front, the United States and the United Kingdom to investigate these events. More >>
Afghanistan:Only A Human Rights Solution Will Last
Tuesday, 27 November 2001, 1:41 pm | Amnesty International
Amazing images of both fear and hope have been coming out of Afghanistan since the taking of Kabul by the United Front. The beaten and bloody executed bodies of Pakistanis and Arabs, a female newsreader happy to be back at work, and perhaps the most poignant ... More >>
Israel's Policy Of Closures And Demolitions
Monday, 26 November 2001, 10:55 am | Amnesty International
Committee Against Torture Says Israel's Policy Of Closures And Demolitions Of Palestinian Homes May Amount To Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment More >>
Afghanistan: A Human Rights Agenda For The Future
Monday, 26 November 2001, 12:38 am | Amnesty International
Human rights must be at the core of any discussion on the future of Afghanistan, Amnesty International said today ahead of the Bonn meeting. More >>
