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Amnesty petitions US new UN Human Rights Council
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 8:07 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is mobilizing its members in the United States of America and around the world, calling on the U.S. government to support the formation of an effective new UN Human Rights Council. More >>
Iraq: Thousands of detainees denied basic rights
Monday, 6 March 2006, 8:05 pm | Amnesty International
Thousands of detainees being held by the US-led Multinational Force (MNF) in Iraq are trapped in a system of arbitrary detention that denies them their basic rights, Amnesty International said in a report published today. At the same time, there is ... More >>
China: Guangdong bag snatchers face death penalty
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:21 am | Amnesty International
Drive-by thieves who use violence may now face the death penalty, according to an alarming announcement by the Guangdong provincial authorities. More >>
U2 receives Human Rights award at Chile's Stadium
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 2:22 pm | Amnesty International
(Santiago de Chile) In an event that took place last night at the National Stadium, Chilean President-elect Michelle Bachelet presented Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience award to the Irish band U2. More >>
UN: Time to Act
Monday, 27 February 2006, 9:33 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International calls on all governments to adopt without delay the draft resolution on the Human Rights Council presented today by the President of the General Assembly as the first concrete step in meeting the 2005 World Summit’s commitment ... More >>
EU-Iran: Nuclear Must Not Overshadow Human Rights
Friday, 24 February 2006, 4:30 pm | Amnesty International
(Brussels) The EU must address Iran’s widespread human rights violations, says Amnesty International, as Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki meets with EU high officials Javier Solana, Benita Ferrero-Waldner and the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs ... More >>
UK: Govt’s "war on terror" create risk of torture
Friday, 24 February 2006, 3:15 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today (23 February) released a damning 83-page report exposing the damaging effect of the UK's anti-terrorism policies on human rights. More >>
Jamaica: Police convicted of murder while on duty
Friday, 24 February 2006, 3:11 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today welcomed the conviction of a police officer from the Jamaican Constabulary Force of the murder of a 25 year-old man in November 2000 -- the first conviction of a Jamaican police officer for murder committed while on duty ... More >>
Italy: The invisible children
Friday, 24 February 2006, 3:08 pm | Amnesty International
"...I am a minor and I cannot stay here because those who are here do not want me with them because I am a child… staying here is just awful. I don't sleep at night and I kindly ask you to let me get out of here as soon as possible. Thank you." More >>
China: Tiananmen dissident mentally ill by Torture
Friday, 24 February 2006, 3:05 pm | Amnesty International
After 16 years, Tiananmen dissident Yu Dongyue was finally freed from prison yesterday, but with his mental health impaired. Amnesty International welcomed his release and called for all others still imprisoned in connection with the crackdown on the 1989 ... More >>
Maldives: Release of artist and internet dissident
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:47 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International welcomes today's release of prisoners of conscience Ahmad Ibrahim Didi and Naushad Waheed, but urges the government to take decisive action to reform the criminal justice system to prevent further politically motivated detentions. More >>
Ethiopia: Prisoners of conscience to face 'trial'
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:44 pm | Amnesty International
As international concerns regarding the human rights situation in Ethiopia escalate, Amnesty International called for the immediate and unconditional release of opposition leaders, human rights defenders and journalists who will face trial tomorrow on charges ... More >>
China: fear over missing hunger-strike activists
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 3:56 pm | Amnesty International
Several Chinese activists who have supported or participated in a series of protest hunger-strikes since 4 February have been arrested or gone missing. Amnesty International calls on the authorities to clarify their exact whereabouts, guarantee their safety ... More >>
Brazil: Carandiru ruling – a shock to human rights
Monday, 20 February 2006, 3:33 pm | Amnesty International
Brazil’s criminal justice system has failed to uphold international human rights standards, allowing grave human rights violations to go unpunished, said Amnesty International after São Paulo’s state Supreme Court annulled Col. Ubiratan Guimarães’ ... More >>
Iran: New government fails to address human rights
Friday, 17 February 2006, 12:59 am | Amnesty International
Six months after Iran's new president came to power human rights violations remain widespread and the new government has failed to take any action to address the situation, Amnesty International revealed in a report published today. More >>
USA: Amnesty welcomes UN call to close Guantánamo
Friday, 17 February 2006, 12:57 am | Amnesty International
USA: Amnesty welcomes UN call to close Guantánamo Bay – but it is tip of iceberg More >>
Brazil: Carandiru, 13 years of impunity
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 5:24 pm | Amnesty International
On 15 February, a court in São Paulo will hear the appeal lodged by Colonel Ubiratan Guimarães against the 632 year sentence he was handed in June 2001 for his role, as commanding officer, in the 1992 Carandiru prison massacre. More >>
Tortured Logic: Thumbscrewing International Law
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 11:58 am | Amnesty International
Scoop Link: Torturers used to practice their craft behind a wall of secrecy. Now some U.S. officials are defending torture as a necessary tool in the “war on terror.” When U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld charged in March that Iraq had violated ... More >>
Sudan: Students beaten, detained and tortured
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 4:58 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International has learned that on Saturday, 11 February 2006, at approximately 12.00 pm, armed police and security forces arrived in 15 cars at Juba University in Bahri, Khartoum at the request of university officials. Without warning, they ... More >>
Guatemala: justice blocked for massacre survivors
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 3:28 pm | Amnesty International
In Guatemala, human rights violations appear to be addressed by pressing criminal charges against the victims, said Amnesty International as charges are due to be formally presented against nine activists and community leaders from Río Negro. More >>
