Governments use enforced disappearance as a tool of repression to silence dissent and eliminate political opposition, as well as to persecute ethnic, religious and political groups. Seven more countries need to commit to the UN's Convention on Enforced Disappearance for it to come into force.
The announcement on 13 June that incumbent President Ahmadinejad had won the presidential election of the day before by a wide margin sparked the biggest demonstrati
Hundreds of detainees held by the US military in Iraq are being put at risk of execution, torture or other ill treatment as they are transferred to Iraqi custody without safeguards.
Individuals suspected or accused in terrorism-related cases in Tunisia are subject to human rights violations, including torture and other ill-treatment, solitary conf
The Saudi Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights in the name of security and fighting terrorism. Thousands of people have been arreste
In the name of countering terrorism, the USA has violated the rights ofindividuals in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and elsewhere. The humanrights violations co
Amnesty International called for the investigation into the long standing allegations initiated by the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office in 2008 to be transp
