Mohammed Jawad and Omar Khadr were under 18 at the time of their detention by the US military in Afghanistan. Their pre-trial hearings resumed this week.
Ethiopian forces and forces of the Transitional Federal Government of
Somalia (TFG) have been accused of targeting civilians in an attack on
a Mogadishu mosque that left 21 dead.
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.
As the 100 year anniversary of International Women’s Day draws close, and 60 years after human rights were enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, girls across the world find a range of barriers to education.
Israeli military air strikes and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip
during the last few days have killed over 100 Palestinians, including
dozens of children and other civilian bystanders.
At least 2.3 million people have been displaced by the conflict in
Darfur; most now
live in more than 65 camps dotted around Darfur.
As UN forces end their third week of operations in Darfur, Amnesty International today warned that the security situation for internally displaced people in Darfur is on a knife-edge and warned that a generation of Darfuris is growing up in extreme fear and insecurity in camps awash with weapons – a potentially explosive combination.
The security situation for internally displaced people is on a
knife-edge as the UN forces end their third week of operations in
Darfur.
Victoria Harrison Neves writes from Bangladesh about her first mission as an Amnesty International press officer – as part of the organization's delegation to the country.
Romani children in Slovakia are being denied the right to a proper education by a system that routinely discriminates against them.
