By Yolanda Foster, Amnesty International’s Sri Lanka researcher
It’s now 2 years since the end of the war between the Sri Lankan security forces and the Tamil Tigers. To many, the Sri Lankan conflict may seem strangely remote. For survivo…Continue Reading
By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International crisis researcher
Yesterday, as forces loyal to Libyan leader Colonel M’uammar al-Gaddafi retreated from Gheiran, one of the Misratah’s neighbourhoods located just to the south of the centre of thi…Continue Reading
By Amnesty International’s Andrea Huber and Sian Jones in Belgrade
We went to observe the consultation of the Belvil Roma community today, which took place in an empty former petrol station in the vicinity of the settlement, by a representative o…Continue Reading
By Amnesty International’s Andrea Huber and Sian Jones in Belgrade
We went to observe the consultation of the Belvil Roma community today, which took place in an empty former petrol station in the vicinity of the settlement, by a representative o…Continue Reading
By Gaëtan Mootoo and Stephan Oberreit, Amnesty International’s delegates in Côte d’Ivoire
We are two delegates from Amnesty International, and what we would like to do right now is to document reports of grave human rights violations in Abidjan a…Continue Reading
By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s
Crisis Researcher
1 April 2011, Ajdabiya
Ajdabiya, a city of more than 100,000 people, is again empty of its residents. Yesterday, even the few residents who had begun to return earlier in the week w…Continue Reading
By Donatella Rovera,
Amnesty International’s Crisis Researcher
Ajdabiya, 30 March 2011
Visiting Ajdabiya for two days I met Adam al-Tarhouni who told me how his 67-year-old father, Miftah, and his 36-year-old brother, Mohammad, were both kille…Continue Reading
By Salil Shetty, Secretary-General of Amnesty International
Last March, when Andrei Zhuk’s mother brought one of her usual food parcels to the prison in Minsk, she was turned away. Her son ‘had been moved’, officials told her. She should not c…Continue Reading
By Alaphia Zoyab, Online Communities Officer
On Friday morning the online team at Amnesty International was in for a pleasant surprise.
At work we have our Amnesty website open on our computers throughout the day and are very familiar with trends on…Continue Reading
By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International Crisis Researcher
Benghazi, Libya, 18 March 2011
Yesterday, I managed to speak by phone to a family that I met last week when I was in Ajdabya, a town about 160km west of Benghazi which has been pounded by…Continue Reading
Ann Harrison, Iran researcher, Amnesty International
The publication on Monday of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s interim report on Iran to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva did not reveal any startling new information.
Yet, it w…Continue Reading
By Horia Mosadiq, Amnesty International’s Afghanistan Researcher.
The recent move by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Women Affairs (MoWA) to take control of women’s shelters is deeply worrying. I have spoken to NGO workers who run these shelter…Continue Reading
By the Amnesty International team in Cairo
Describing in words the atmosphere in Tahrir Square on the evening of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation after 30 years in power would never do it justice.
It was a bit like Cairo itself – you cannot unders…Continue Reading
By Amnesty International staff in Egypt
Yesterday, reunited with our two colleagues, we saw flashbacks of the denouement of our last hours of separation. Our night time chase across Cairo’s ghastly streets late on Friday and in the early hours of S…Continue Reading
The blasphemy laws that led to the murder of Salmaan Taseer are as serious a threat as the Taliban
by Mustafa Qadri, Amnesty International’s Pakistan researcher. (First published in the Guardian, Thursday 3 February 2011)
The murder of Punjab…Continue Reading