Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan led a mission to
Chile in at the beginning of November to assess the country’s human
rights situation.
Five human rights groups urged governments to accept into their countries, those detainees who will not be charged with any crime but who cannot be returned to
their
Amnesty International’s
Secretary General Irene Khan has issued an assessment of the human rights
situation in the country and a set of recommendations address
Pakistan is still suffering from the abusive policies put in place one
year ago Monday, when General Pervez Musharraf unlawfully declared a
state of emergency.
Authorities try to paint a positive picture despite increasing reports of forced internal displacement, attacks
against social and human rights activists and killings
Brother and sister Jimmy and Myriam Bell, who were schoolchildren in
Santiago, Chile, during the 1973 coup, discuss their experiences under the
Pinochet regime.
Two years after the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya,
human rights activists and journalists are still at risk in the Russian
Federation, in particula
Amnesty International today called on the US government to re-issue a
visa to Pakistani human rights defender Amina Masood, after an earlier
visa was revoked on &quo
