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12 January 2009
Barack Obama is being urged to back up his pledge to
close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay by calling a halt to a
military commission trial scheduled
12 January 2009
A year into Alvaro Colom's term as Guatemala's President, more action
needs to be taken to build on his promising commitments to improve
human rights in the country.
09 January 2009
The outgoing President of Ghana, John Kufuor, commuted all death sentences in the country.
09 January 2009
Activists demand the closure of Guantánamo on the seventh anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to the US detention facility in Cuba.
08 January 2009
Both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters are endangering the lives of Palestinian civilians – including by using them as human shields, says Amnesty Intern
08 January 2009
Professor John Evans Atta Mills must make human rights central to his political programme. In a new document, Amnesty International has highlighted seven key human rig
08 January 2009
The Charities and Societies Proclamation law could criminalise the human rights activities of both foreign and domestic non-governmental organizations.
08 January 2009
Detained without charge for six months, brothers Arash and Kamiar Alaei could now face up to ten years in prison for 'cooperation' with an 'enemy government'.
08 January 2009
EU Foreign Ministers urged to pressure Israel to end attacks which are directed at civilians or civilian buildings in the Gaza Strip, and to allow much needed humanita
07 January 2009
UN Security Council urged to demand that Israel, Hamas and Palestinian armed
groups observe an immediate truce to allow desperately needed
humanitarian assistance to
07 January 2009
One of China's best-known dissidents has been under house arrest since 8 December, after he signed a campaign for political and rights reform in China, known as Charte
06 January 2009
A worker with the United Nations World Food Programme was killed by unidentified gunmen in southern Somalia, highlights the dangerous environment in which journalists
05 January 2009
Two men wrongfully convicted of the murder of trade union
leader Chea Vichea, have been released on bail after nearly five years
in prison.
31 December 2008
As the number of casualties continues to mount, civilians in Gaza are
in increasingly dire need of food, medical and other emergency
assistance.
29 December 2008
Palestinian civilians remain at risk of being killed or injured in the
Israeli air strikes and are increasingly lacking adequate medical care
food, medicines, electr
28 December 2008
Amnesty International has called on Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups to immediately halt the unlawful attacks carried out as part of an escalation of violen
24 December 2008
Jestina Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), who
was abducted from her home on 3 December, has been left by her abductors at
Matapi Police Stati
24 December 2008
Zimbabweans are facing yet another difficult year in 2009, unless a
political settlement is found to arrest the fast deteriorating
socio-economic conditions in the c
23 December 2008
After more than 14 days in detention, it appears that Chinese
authorities intend to seriously prosecute the dissident literary
scholar, Liu Xiaobo.
23 December 2008
Two men convicted of the murder of a trade union activist after a seriously flawed criminal investigation and a grossly
unfair trial will have their case heard by the
