In May 2008, Manfred Nowak spoke to Amnesty International about the role of European states in the US-led programmes of rendition and secret detention.
As the Olympic torch relay travels to Lhasa, Amnesty International
urged the Chinese government to provide information about those
detained during the protests last
Mohammed Jawad and Omar Khadr were under 18 at the time of their detention by the US military in Afghanistan. Their pre-trial hearings resumed this week.
In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International calls
on states to reaffirm everyo
Amnesty International has made public the human rights agenda for the
Spanish government’s second term, presented a review of progress to date and made a
numbe
On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of
Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
to challenge
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan, is leading a mission to Spain to meet with government officials, human rights organizations, survivors of human
