(Beirut) Secretary General Irene Khan called on top Lebanese officials today to reaffirm their commitment to human rights by taking concrete action, including the creation of a fully independent judicial system.
All political leaders in Lebanon must clearly instruct their supporters to fully respect human rights and to refrain from recklessly carrying out attacks in heavily-populated areas that endanger civilians uninvolved in the clashes, Amnesty International said today.
All political leaders in Lebanon must clearly instruct their supporters
to fully respect human rights and to refrain from recklessly carrying
out attacks in heavily-populated areas that endanger civilians
uninvolved in the clashes, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
Amnesty International called a report published yesterday by the Winograd Commission on Israel’s conduct in the war with Hizbullah in July-August 2006 “deeply flawed.”
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon face discrimination in employment and a
lack of access to adequate education and housing, says a new Amnesty
International report.
Since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003, more
journalists have been killed in that country than anywhere else in the
world.
UK residents Jamil al-Banna, a Jordanian national, and Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, were arrested in Gambia in 2002, transferred to a US base in Afghanistan and then sent to Guantánamo.
