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Iraq: Amnesty Urges Inquiry Into Custodial Deaths
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 2:37 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International has written to Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr Solagh, to call for a full investigation into the alleged torture of a group of men detained by Iraqi police on 10 July and the circumstances in which nine of them were suffocated ... More >>
Sierra Leone: UN should call for Taylor surrender
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:27 am | Amnesty International
During her visit to West Africa this week, the United Nations’ top human rights official, Louise Arbour, should press for ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor’s surrender to the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Campaign Against Impunity ... More >>
Colombia: President must not ratify impunity law
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:26 am | Amnesty International
In a meeting with Colombian president Alvaro Uribe today, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said that ending impunity is the key for the protection of human rights in the country and urged the President not to ratify the Justice and Peace ... More >>
Kosovo: Protect the right to health and life
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:25 am | Amnesty International
The health of hundreds of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptiani currently living in camps built on a former lead-smelting site in Kosovo is under serious threat. High levels of lead have been registered in the blood of many of the 531 adults and children who ... More >>
UN ‘deal’ on arms controls: business as usual
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:23 am | Amnesty International
Joint Statement by the Control Arms campaign: Amnesty International, Oxfam International, IANSA The new UN agreement on a system to track small arms and light weapons is toothless and riddled with loopholes, according to the Control Arms campaign. The agreement, ... More >>
Israel/OT: attacks against civilians must end
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 1:08 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International condemns the suicide attack which claimed the lives of at least two people in a busy shopping mall in the town of Netanya north of Tel Aviv on Tuesday. The Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the attack, ... More >>
Ten years on, no justice for victims of Srebrenica
Monday, 11 July 2005, 10:27 am | Amnesty International
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the massacre of around 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys in Srebrenica, Amnesty International members around the world are calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. More >>
Jordan: Commute death sentences and end executions
Monday, 11 July 2005, 10:25 am | Amnesty International
The Jordanian Criminal Court sentenced Zuheir Ahmed to death on 15 May 2005 for the murder of Najeh Khayat in 1995. However, Bilal Musa was executed for the same killing in 2000 following conviction in an entirely unrelated trial, during which ... More >>
UK: Amnesty International condemns bomb attacks
Friday, 8 July 2005, 8:59 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International condemns in the strongest possible terms the multiple bombings that have claimed an unconfirmed number of lives and seriously injured many more people in London today. Explosions have been reported at six Underground stations ... More >>
Amnesty Int. condemns bomb attacks in London
Friday, 8 July 2005, 2:30 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International condemns in the strongest possible terms the multiple bombings that have claimed an unconfirmed number of lives and seriously injured many more people in London today. Explosions have been reported at six Underground stations ... More >>
Amnesty Urges Sri Lanka Not To Resume Executions
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 11:19 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is gravely concerned at reports that the Justice Ministry and the Attorney General have recommended that the death sentences imposed on the killers of Rita John be carried out. More >>
Congo: Illegal arms exports fuelling killings
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 11:18 am | Amnesty International
Large quantities of weapons and ammunition from the Balkans and eastern Europe are flowing into Africa's conflict-ridden Great Lakes region, despite evidence of their use in gross human rights violations, according to new research issued today. More >>
Iraq: targeting of diplomats by armed groups
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 12:07 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today condemned abduction of Egypt's ambassador to Iraq on Saturday and this morning's attempted assassination of Bahrain's envoy and the attack on Pakistan ambassador's convoy, as an intensely worrying new trend in abuses by ... More >>
Australia: Detention regime breaches human rights
Monday, 4 July 2005, 10:35 am | Amnesty International
"During two years we are living in a prison without committing any crime.... support us and give our message to all the world that we need freedom.... it is needed for every human being." Nauru detainee More >>
Zimbabwe: Deaths as mass evictions continue
Friday, 1 July 2005, 10:51 am | Amnesty International
As New Zealand continues to debate whether the Black Caps go to Zimbabwe, Amnesty International has cited reports that at least three have died -- including a pregnant woman and a four-year-old child -- during a chaotic mass eviction at least 10,000 ... More >>
Congo: Further violence feared as clashes erupt
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 11:58 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today called for calm and restraint by the security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as clashes between police and protestors have already taken place and further demonstrations are planned for 30 June. The ... More >>
Deliver on human rights: appeal to the EU
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 11:57 am | Amnesty International
Brussels 28 June 2005) A strong human rights agenda can help the European Union overcome its political and institutional crisis and reaffirm the EU as a Union of values, says Amnesty International in its recommendations to the UK Presidency of the EU. More >>
Amnesty rejects claim violations internal matter
Monday, 27 June 2005, 10:57 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International rejected claims by the African Union (AU) today that it would not be "proper" for the AU to interfere in the "internal" affairs of Zimbabwe. More >>
Amnesty campaigns against 'war on terror' torture
Monday, 27 June 2005, 10:55 am | Amnesty International
On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June, Amnesty International announces that it is intensifying its work against torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by launching a campaign against torture and ill-treatment ... More >>
G8 fails the victims of irresponsible arms exports
Monday, 27 June 2005, 10:54 am | Amnesty International
Today's statement from the UK Chair of the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting on arms control is a shocking disappointment and undermines the G8's commitments to end poverty and injustice. More >>
