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"Human Rights: Not Made in China"
Sunday, 8 April 2007, 4:11 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International will launch its new campaign for "Human Rights Reform in China" on the 10th of April with a nation-wide 'Lion Declaration' tour, which aims to increase public awareness about human rights abuses occurring in the People's ... More >>
Amnesty Int: Hicks Pleads Guilty On One Count
Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 11:03 am | Amnesty International
At a hearing in Guantánamo on 26 March 2007, in his sixth year of detention and at the start of the US administration’s second attempt in the last three years to try him before a military commission, Australian national David Hicks pleaded ... More >>
30 years of International Women's Day
Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 10:49 am | Amnesty International
On Thursday 8th March Amnesty International groups around New Zealand and the globe will be celebrating International Women's Day with infostalls, appeals and candle-lit vigils. Activist groups will be lighting 180 candles, signifying both 30 years of ... More >>
Amnesty Asks Govt to Honour Rights of NZ Children
Monday, 5 March 2007, 12:26 am | Amnesty International
Amidst celebrations planned for Children's Day on the 4th of March, Amnesty International reminds the government that the state of children's human rights in this country is far from satisfactory. More >>
Blood diamonds - Who died for your diamond?
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 9:32 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is cautioning consumers to check the origins of their diamond purchases. The warning comes along with the New Zealand release of Blood Diamond - a major Hollywood blockbuster that portrays the affect of the illegal diamond trade ... More >>
Amnesty Condemns Saddam Appeal Court Death Verdict
Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:43 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International has condemned the Iraqi Appeal Court's decision on 26 December 2006 to confirm the death sentences on Saddam Hussein and two of his co-accused in the al-Dujail trial and said the court should have ordered a re-trial. The organization ... More >>
Darfur 'Washing Lines' of Bloodied Clothes
Sunday, 10 December 2006, 12:34 am | Amnesty International
Bloodied clothes hung on washing lines are being placed in public spaces in over 150 countries worldwide. More >>
Amnesty International - Update
Thursday, 30 November 2006, 11:41 am | Amnesty International
URGENT ACTION, ISRAEL/OT: Human rights defenders in the Occupied Territories web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE150922006?open&of=ENG-346 More >>
Students Wear their Hearts on their Sleeves
Monday, 27 November 2006, 10:28 am | Amnesty International
School students from all over New Zealand have applied their design skills to Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women and Girls campaign. More >>
AI activists get busy for 'White Ribbon Day'
Friday, 24 November 2006, 10:31 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International has renewed its commitment to its priority global campaign to Stop Violence Against Women. The campaign, involving the worldwide movement of 1.8 million people, is a response to the massive scale of violence against women ... More >>
Amnesty deplores death sentences in Hussein trial
Monday, 6 November 2006, 12:12 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International deplores the decision of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) to impose the death sentence on Saddam Hussein and two of his seven co-accused after a trial which was deeply flawed and unfair. The former Iraqi dictator was sentenced ... More >>
Prison protest today (Saturday)
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 4:30 pm | Amnesty International
Prison protest today (Saturday) Amnesty International has added its voice in support of the release of Thomas Yadegary from Auckland's Mt Eden prison. Supporters of Thomas Yadegary will gather outside Auckland's Mt Eden prison from 2pm to 3pm to call on ... More >>
Majority of Govt's Support Arms Trade Treaty
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:31 pm | Amnesty International
Overwhelming majority of world's governments join NZ in voting to start work on international Arms Trade Treaty More >>
Nobel Laureates Urge Govt's To Control Arms
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 5:05 pm | Amnesty International
On the eve of a historic vote to begin work on an Arms Trade Treaty in the UN General Assembly's First Committee, 15 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Oscar Arias and Amnesty International have called on governments to ... More >>
Myanmar: Prisoner of conscience, dies in prison
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 1:26 pm | Amnesty International
International is deeply concerned by the death in Mandalay Prison today of student leader and prisoner of conscience Thet Win Aung, aged 34. The organization calls on authorities to initiate a prompt, independent investigation into the causes of ... More >>
Resolution for an Arms Trade Treaty Championed
Monday, 16 October 2006, 8:49 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International New Zealand has welcomed growing international support for a global Arms Trade Treaty, and called on the New Zealand Defence Industry Association (NZDIA) to join the campaign. More >>
77 governments champion an Arms Trade Treaty
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:59 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International New Zealand has welcomed growing international support for a global Arms Trade Treaty, and called on the New Zealand Defence Industry Association (NZDIA) to join the campaign. More >>
Brazil: Convictions should trigger wide reform
Saturday, 7 October 2006, 1:50 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today said the convictions against 14 FEBEM (Fundação Estadual do Bem-Estar do Menor) employees and ex-employees for their involvement in acts of torture in the detention centre are a step in the right direction and it should trigger ... More >>
Mexico: Federal authorities, lead Atenco investig.
Friday, 6 October 2006, 4:17 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today urged Mexico’s Federal authorities to take over investigations into at least 23 reports of sexual abuse committed by security forces in San Salvador Atenco during police operations 5 months ago and to ensure justice for the victims. More >>
Africa: Forced evictions reach crisis levels
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 4:27 am | Amnesty International
Research conducted by Amnesty International and the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) reveals that the practice of forced evictions has reached epidemic proportions in Africa, with more than three million Africans forcibly evicted ... More >>
