12 August 2008
The blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip over a year ago has
left the population of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped with
dwindling resources and an economy in ruins.
12 August 2008
After months of increased tension, and recent low-level hostilities,
the conflict between Georgia and the breakaway region of South Ossetia
escalated in the early morning of 8 August 2008.
8 August 2008
Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar,
however, little has improved for the millions of people still suffering
under repressive rule.
6 August 2008
Matthew Pollard, Amnesty International's legal advisor, describes the Guantánamo hearings and discusses the reasons for his being in Guantánamo.
5 August 2008
Matt Pollard, Amnesty International’s latest trial observer atthe recent military commission hearings at Guantánamo Bay, gives a sense of what it was like there.
1 August 2008
Thousands of Mexican women who face violence in their homes are being put at risk of further abuse by a justice system that often fails to take their safety seriously.
17 July 2008
Thursday 17 July marks the tenth anniversary of the Rome Statute, the treaty that led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court.
26 June 2008
To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International members and supporters are taking action around the world.
18 June 2008
On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of
Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
to challenge their detention in US civilian courts.
16 June 2008
Murat Kurnaz was detained in Afghanistan and Guantánamo without charge or trial for nearly five years.
