110 states have agreed a provisional text for a historic new Convention on
Cluster Munitions, which is a treaty to ban the "Use, Production and
Transfer of Cluster Munitions".
All shipments of small arms, light weapons and ammunition ordered from
China by the Zimbabwe Government must be halted as there is a real risk
that it may lead to increased human rights violations.
At least 18 Palestinians, including children and other unarmed
civilians, were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on
Wednesday.
Campaigners from more than 40 countries around the world, including Amnesty International, are hosting a Global Day of Action to Ban Cluster Bombs on Saturday 19 April 2008. This will take place a month before world governments meet at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference On Cluster Munitions from 19 – 30 May 2008 to negotiate and adopt the first ever legally binding treaty to prohibit cluster munitions.
The US and other NATO states are supplying arms to Afghanistan that could be used for serious human rights violations, warns Amnesty International.
The Israeli army demolished more homes in Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning.
Thousands of civilians have fled West Darfur’s Sirba region and an
unknown number were killed as the Sudan Armed Forces moved to
re-occupy the area.
A large army-backed militia force is carrying out attacks on the West Darfur towns of Sirba and Abu Suruj.
The destruction by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of videotapes of the interrogation of two “high value” detainees in 2002 amounts to obstruction of justice and concealment of evidence. The destroyed tapes included the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, reliably reported to have been “waterboarded”.
Pakistan: One of the key targets under attack in the state of emergency,
imposed by President Musharraf, has been the country’s
increasingly active judiciary.
