Bahrain: State of Fear Prevails With Arbitrary Detentions, Pre-Dawn Raids
Arbitrary detention appears rampant under Bahrain’s state of emergency, with numerous cases in which authorities have abused people they detained or stopped. Bahrain should account for everyone who has been detain…Continue Reading
Bahrain: State of Fear Prevails With Arbitrary Detentions, Pre-Dawn Raids
Arbitrary detention appears rampant under Bahrain’s state of emergency, with numerous cases in which authorities have abused people they detained or stopped. Bahrain should account for everyone who has been detain…Continue Reading
Cambodia: Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO and Association Law
(Bangkok) – Cambodia’s draft law regulating associations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should be abandoned because it will undermine rather than promote civil society in the country, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Forum-Asia, Glo…Continue Reading
Belarus rejects call for OSCE human rights mission to investigate crackdown
MINSK, Belarus – Belarus has rejected a call by Western countries for a human rights fact-finding mission to be sent to the authoritarian former Soviet republic in the wake of a crackdown on opposition.Continue Reading
US/Colombia: Rights Conditions Crucial for Trade Deal
The US Congress should insist on vigorous enforcement of human rights commitments by Presidents Barack Obama and Juan Manuel Santos before moving forward on the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
US/Colombia: Rights Conditions Crucial for Trade Deal
(Washington, D.C.) – The US Congress should insist on vigorous enforcement of human rights commitments by Presidents Barack Obama and Juan Manuel Santos before moving forward on the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Human Rights Watch said today. Con…Continue Reading
US/Colombia: Rights Conditions Crucial for Trade Deal
The US Congress should insist on vigorous enforcement of human rights commitments by Presidents Barack Obama and Juan Manuel Santos before moving forward on the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Belarus rejects call for OSCE human rights mission to investigate crackdown
MINSK, Belarus – Belarus has rejected a call by Western countries for a human rights fact-finding mission to be sent to the authoritarian former Soviet republic in the wake of a crackdown on opposition.Continue Reading
Côte d’Ivoire: Millions of people living in fear amid crossfire
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
Bridging human rights gaps in Serbia
By Andrea Huber, Head of Amnesty International’s delegation in Belgrade
The media centre was packed with journalists and representatives of NGOs today for the launch of Amnesty International’s report Home is more than a roof over your head, whi…Continue Reading
Bridging human rights gaps in Serbia
By Andrea Huber, Head of Amnesty International’s delegation in Belgrade
The media centre was packed with journalists and representatives of NGOs today for the launch of Amnesty International’s report Home is more than a roof over your head, whi…Continue Reading
100,000 U2 fans support the Demand Dignity campaign!
By Lucy Macnamara, Communications Manager – Art for Amnesty
The concerts here in Buenos Aires have proved to be pretty exciting! Some fantastic campaigning by Amnesty Argentina volunteers meant that we have smashed through our target of 100,000…Continue Reading
100,000 U2 fans support the Demand Dignity campaign!
By Lucy Macnamara, Communications Manager – Art for Amnesty
The concerts here in Buenos Aires have proved to be pretty exciting! Some fantastic campaigning by Amnesty Argentina volunteers meant that we have smashed through our target of 100,000…Continue Reading
Crackdown in China
(Hong Kong) – It has taken the arrest of Ai Weiwei, one of China’s best-known contemporary artists and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, for the world to take notice that Beijing is in the midst of the largest crackdown on dissent in over …Continue Reading