Press releases
Friday 21 November 2008
Media briefing with questions and answers regarding the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Friday 21 November 2008
Urgent action is needed by Nicaragua’s political parties to stop their supporters from engaging in acts of violence like those that have swept the country over t
Thursday 20 November 2008
Amnesty International welcomes today’s adoption by the General Assembly’s Third Committee of a second resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on the
Thursday 20 November 2008
Reacting to today’s announcement that the UN Security Council has authorized the deployment of 3,000 extra troops to reinforce those already on the ground i
Wednesday 19 November 2008
The Sri Lankan government must immediately end its policy of blocking humanitarian aid needed to reach an estimated 300,000 displaced people in the Wanni region of nor
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Mutabar Tadzhibaeva, a human rights activist from Uzbekistan, will
receive the 2008 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA)
on Thursday, 20 November
Wednesday 19 November 2008
(Washington/London) President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia should stop making false and dangerous accusations against human rights groups that criticize his governm
Tuesday 18 November 2008
One hundred days after the August conflict, over 20,000 ethnic
Georgians are still unable to return to their homes in South Ossetia,
while many of those, on both sid
Tuesday 18 November 2008
The Czech authorities must put an immediate end to the increasing
verbal and physical attacks against the Roma community by far right
groups and prosecute those brea
Tuesday 18 November 2008
Amnesty International welcomed today’s adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, by the UN General
