The Secretary General of Amnesty International, Irene Khan, is in
Brussels on Tuesday to meet top officials in the EU Council, Parliament
and Commission.
Poor inner city Jamaicans are left at the mercy of gangs and abusive
police officers who are rarely, if ever, brought to justice for human
rights abuses.
Poor inner city Jamaicans are left at the mercy of gangs and abusive
police officers who are rarely, if ever, brought to justice for human
rights abuses.
Despite the storm force winds and heavy rain, Amnesty International
members held a vigil outside the Embassy of Georgia in London on
Tuesday.
Three years after the murder of Azerbaijani journalist Elmar Hüseynov, assaults on opposition journalists continue.
An international day of public and online action will
call on the Kenyan
government to protect people from politically-motivated and ethnic
violence.
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.
Over a decade after the end of Guatemala's armed conflict, many of
those responsible for its most brutal crimes continue to evade criminal
prosecution.
Amnesty International's Secretary General told a meeting of NGOs in
Bangladesh that the organisation is in the country to push for reform
that will have a lasting impact for human rights.
(Nairobi) Amnesty International is concerned about reports that dozens of people have been killed in Kenya, many by police bullets, during protests against alleged fraud in the general elections held three days earlier.
