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Indonesian parliament

Indonesia urged to ratify the Rome Statute

2 May 2008

Indonesia must fulfil its commitment to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 2008, Amnesty International has urged.
United Nations assembly during the opening of the second session of the Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland

Pressure is on to elect strong and effective Human Rights Council

30 April 2008

The UN General Assembly will elect, in direct and individual elections and by secret ballot, 15 new members of the Human Rights Council on 21 May 2008.
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Thousands lost in Kashmir mass graves

18 April 2008

Call on India to investigate allegations of enforced disappearances and mass graves in Kashmir and Jammu.
Patrick Okoroafor in prison

Free Nigerian prisoner

18 April 2008

Patrick Okoroafor was just 14 years old when he was arrested in May 1995. Two years later, he was sentenced to death for robbery.
Refugee children re-enact the destruction of a village in Darfur, Sudan with clay figures

Darfur's children of conflict

9 April 2008

The United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force to Darfur was deployed on 31 December 2007, but little has changed for the children of the region.
Hu Jia at home after being held in incommunicado detetion, Beijing, July 2006.

Hu Jia jailed for three and a half years

4 April 2008

Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia has been convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Ye Guozhu

Permission denied - housing rights activist in prison

1 April 2008

Housing rights activist Ye Guozhu is serving a four-year prison sentence after he applied for permission to hold a demonstration against forced evictions in Beijing.