UN group calls on China to release human rights lawyer missing for almost a year
BEIJING, China – A U.N. committee has called on China to release a prominent human rights lawyer who has been missing for nearly a year, saying his detention violates international law.Continue Reading
En las calles de Bahréin tu firma importa
Alaphia Zoyab, encargada de comunidades online
Al equipo de comunidades online de Amnistía Internacional le aguardaba una agradable sorpresa el viernes por la mañana.
En el trabajo mantenemos abierta todo el día la página de Amnistía en los ordena…Continue Reading
Bonnie Docherty Delivers Statement on CCW Cluster Munitions Protocol
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Discussions on cluster munitions have been ongoing in the forum of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) for more than a decade. Since 2007 a Group of Government Experts (GGE) has been meeting regularly to negotiat…Continue Reading
El movimiento global para dar muerte a la pena de muerte
Por Salil Shetty, secretario general de Amnistía Internacional
El pasado mes de marzo, cuando la madre de Andrei Zhuk llevó a la prisión de Minsk uno de sus habituales paquetes de comida, tuvo que darse la vuelta. Su hijo “había sido trasladado…Continue Reading
The global movement to kill the death penalty
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
U.N. rights body calls on China to release rights lawyer
China’s best known rights lawyer, missing for nearly a year, is being detained in violation of international law, a United Nations human rights body said in a statement made public on Monday, and it called for his immediate release.Continue Reading
US makes its mark in UN rights council
More than a year after US President Barack Obama ended a US boycott of the UN Human Rights Council, diplomats and observers feel Washington is making its mark.Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia: Arrests for Peaceful Protest on the Rise
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UN rights chief warns Syria of ‘downward spiral’
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay warned Syria on Saturday that a violent crackdown on reformist protests risked plunging the country into a downward spiral of violence.Continue Reading
Indian Army launches human rights campaign in Kashmir
Jammu, March 26 (IANS) Long accused of committing excesses in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army has embarked on spreading human rights awareness to the villagers living in remote areas.Continue Reading
Syrian authorities release 70 political prisoners
A Syrian human rights activist says authorities have released 70 political prisoners.Continue Reading
The Case for Intervention in the Ivory Coast
(Abidjan, Ivory Coast) — As the world rallies behind the
Libyan population, it is hard to understand why the Ivory Coast is just a
footnote in international news and on the diplomatic agenda. In recent weeks in
this critical West African country, hun…Continue Reading
Egypt: Revoke Ban on Strikes, Demonstrations
(New York) – The Egyptian cabinet’s announcement on March 24, 2011, of a new law banning strikes and demonstrations that impede the work of public institutions violates international law protections for free assembly and should be reversed immediately,…Continue Reading
Brazil human rights minister condemns police attack on minor, calls for ‘rigorous punishment’
RIO DE JANEIRO – The Brazilian minister for human rights has called for ‘rigorous punishment’ of the police officers caught on tape shoving around and shooting an unarmed 14-year-old boy.Continue Reading
Your signature matters to people on the street in Bahrain
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