When thousands of tonnes of
deadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, India on 2 December 1984, around half a million people were exposed.
Amnesty International has criticised the Paraguayan Congress for
rejecting a draft bill that would have returned ancestral land to the
Yakye Axa indigenous community.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated Amnesty International on the launch of its Demand Dignity campaign to end the human rights violations that drive and deepen poverty.
Amnesty International's Secretary General has called on world leaders and policy makers to
shift the debate on poverty from economics to addressing the human
rights problems that impoverish and keep people poor.
A quarter of a million Sri Lankans now being held in de facto detention
camps are facing a humanitarian disaster as monsoon rains threaten to
flood camps.
Governments in Africa must end the practice of forced evictions that
leave hundreds of thousands homeless every year, Amnesty International
said on World Habitat Day, 5 October.
