Amnesty International warns that the discovery of the remains of over 160 victims of extrajudicial execution in Pakistan's Swat Valley highlights the ongoing human rights
crisis in the country’s northwestern areas.
Some seeking safe haven from the fighting between government troops and militants in the Sa'da region, are said to have been denied entry. Others have been forcibly returned to the conflict zone.
The USA must grant all detainees held in US custody at the Bagram
airbase in Afghanistan access to US courts and legal counsel, Amnesty International has said.
All relevant UN bodies must act promptly and in coordination to implement the recommendations of the UN-mandated Goldstone report on violations of international law committed in Gaza and southern Israel in late December and January, Amnesty International said today.
As Afghan officials and the international community grapple with an
ongoing election crisis amid allegations of fraud, Afghans face a
rising tide of violence and violations of their human rights.
Only a fraction of nearly 300,000 people who were displaced by recent
fighting in the north east of Sri Lanka have been allowed to leave
government camps since the war ended in May.
More than 200,000 people living in camps with limited access to food, also face human rights abuses by both the army and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), says a new Amnesty International report.
Women who faced abuse and sexual slavery at the hand of the Japanese
Imperial army during the Second World War, have now been waiting 64 years for an official apology
and adequate reparations.
Attacks on journalists, intimidation and restrictions on reporting threaten freedom of expression in Sri Lanka
and jeopardize the safety and dignity of civilians displaced by war.
