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Iraq: Torture not isolated -- investigations vital
Monday, 3 May 2004, 10:09 am | Amnesty International
There is a real crisis of leadership in Iraq -- with double standards and double speak on human rights, Amnesty International said today. More >>
Colombia: A dangerous place for trade unionists
Monday, 3 May 2004, 10:07 am | Amnesty International
Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world to be a trade unionist. At least 80 trade unionists were killed or "disappeared" in 2003. The vast majority of human rights abuses against trade unionists were attributed to the security forces ... More >>
Sudan: Government must stop disaster in Darfur
Monday, 3 May 2004, 10:06 am | Amnesty International
Only immediate action can prevent the killing and forced displacement of thousands more people in Sudan", said Amnesty International, as the ceasefire agreement continues to be breached. More >>
Establishing the fate of Belarus' "disappeared"
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 11:06 am | Amnesty International
In the period 1999-2000 two opposition politicians and a television cameraman "disappeared" in Belarus. For almost five years there has been no information about the fate or whereabouts of the former Minister of the Interior, Yury Zakharenko, the Deputy Chairman ... More >>
USA Supreme Court must reject indefinite detention
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 9:45 am | Amnesty International
Arbitrary detentions violate a bedrock principle of international human rights law, emphasized Amnesty International on the eve of the United States Supreme Court hearing into the detention of "enemy combatants" Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi, ... More >>
Afghanistan: First execution since fall of Taliban
Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 9:47 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today (26 April 2004) expressed shock at news of the first judicial execution known to have been carried out in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban. Abdullah Shah, a military commander from Paghman, was executed on approximately ... More >>
Libya: Time to make human rights a reality
Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 9:26 am | Amnesty International
(Brussels) - Amnesty International today released a new report, Libya: Time to make human rights a reality, detailing the findings of the organization's first visit to Libya in 15 years. More >>
Sudan: UN Commission statement on Darfur
Monday, 26 April 2004, 10:35 am | Amnesty International
– bland words in response to a deepening human rights crisis On the very last day of its 60th session, the UN Commission on Human Rights adopted a weakly worded Chairperson's Statement on the human rights situation in Darfur. The Chairperson's Statement calls ... More >>
UN Human Rights: Where is the reform agenda?
Monday, 26 April 2004, 10:34 am | Amnesty International
The UN's main human rights body has demonstrated an incapacity and unwillingness to address serious human rights violations, said Amnesty International today as the 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights drew to a close. Despite some positive ... More >>
Syria Must Release Rights Defender Aktham Nu'ays
Monday, 26 April 2004, 10:33 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today condemned the continued arbitrary detention of Syrian human rights defender Aktham Nu'aysa, 53, head of the Committees for Defence of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria (CDDLHR). Aktham Nu'aysa was arrested on 13 April ... More >>
Haiti: Re-trial of Louis Jodel Chamblain
Monday, 26 April 2004, 10:31 am | Amnesty International
The convicted former leader of the 1990s paramilitary group FRAPH, Louis Jodel Chamblain, gave himself up to the police in Port-au-Prince yesterday, 22 April. Another convicted FRAPH leader, Jean Pierre Baptiste, known as "Jean Tatoune", is reported ... More >>
Amnesty: Sexual rights are human rights
Friday, 23 April 2004, 9:51 am | Amnesty International
(Geneva) As the UN Commission on Human Rights draws to an end, activists and like-minded governments have achieved an important victory over a concerted backlash against sexual rights, with the reaffirmation in the Commission's resolution on violence ... More >>
The human rights scandal of Guantanamo Bay
Thursday, 22 April 2004, 10:28 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International welcomes consideration by the UN Commission on Human Rights of the situation of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This is long overdue. More >>
Turkey: Injustice continues despite welcome reform
Thursday, 22 April 2004, 10:24 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is shocked by the decision to prolong the imprisonment of Leyla Zana, Hatip Dicle, Selim Sadak and Orhan Dogan. As prisoners of conscience, they should be released immediately and without condition. More >>
Iraq: Children must not be made to pay for war
Thursday, 22 April 2004, 10:22 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International condemns in the strongest terms the attacks that claimed the lives of at least 58 people, many of them children, in Basra today. More >>
Commission on Human Rights: Amnesty Oral Statement
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 8:42 am | Amnesty International
Commission on Human Rights, 60th Session (15 March - 23 April 2004) Agenda item 17: Promotion and protection of human rights More >>
Colombia: Laboratory of war -- violence soars
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 8:41 am | Amnesty International
(Madrid) The human rights crisis in the oil-rich border region of Arauca is worsening as the warring parties intensify their efforts to control by force the department's natural resources, Amnesty International warned today. More >>
USA: Court must end lawlessness in Guantánamo Bay
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 8:40 am | Amnesty International
No less than the rule of law is at stake in the Guantánamo appeal before the US Supreme Court. More >>
Amnesty Says Human Rights Com Stifling Must Stop
Friday, 16 April 2004, 9:14 am | Amnesty International
Say No to "No-Action" Motions Statement by Amnesty International to the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights More >>
Kathmandu urged to respect rights of protest
Friday, 16 April 2004, 9:11 am | Amnesty International
As sustained street demonstrations and mass arrests continue in Kathmandu, Amnesty International today appealed to the Kathmandu authorities to halt rights violations against those involved in the protests. More >>
