Zimbabwean “war veterans” are forcibly recruiting local youths to
attack perceived supporters of the opposition as violence in the
country reaches crisis levels, Amnesty International has warned.
Parliamentarians present US government officials with an Amnesty International declaration endorsed by over 1,200 of their counterparts worldwide.
A life-size model of a cell at Guantánamo will travel to US cities to bring a taste of the harsh realities of prolonged isolation in detention to the US public.
Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the
release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been
abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Call on India to investigate allegations of enforced disappearances and mass graves in Kashmir and Jammu.
Sixteen years after the end of El Salvador's civil war, the whereabouts
of hundreds of children who disappeared during the conflict remain
unknown.
Guatemala's first ever trial for enforced disappearances began last week.
Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is still in disarray.
Amnesty International today revealed in a new report further details of the cruelty and illegality of the CIA programme of secret detentions and enforced disappearances – a program re-authorized by President Bush in June 2007.
A man who spent nearly three years in secret CIA detention spoke exclusively to Amnesty International about his ordeal.
