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28 January 2009
Emergency medical rescue workers, including doctors, paramedics and ambulance drivers, have repeatedly come under fire from Israeli forces in the Gaza conflict while c
28 January 2009
More than 300,000 civilians are now trapped in the north-eastern part
of Sri Lanka as the fighting between Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the army intensifies.
27 January 2009
An anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation, flechettes should never be used in built-up civilian areas.
27 January 2009
Cambodian security forces and demolition workers carried out the
evictions of 152 families from Dey Kraham community in the early hours
of Saturday.
27 January 2009
The vice-president of the Workers' Party in the Brazilian state of
Pernambuco and human rights activist was assassinated on Saturday.
26 January 2009
A coalition of human rights organizations is calling on EU foreign ministers to help by offering humanitarian protection to
detainees at risk of torture or other seri
26 January 2009
Disclosure of weapons and munitions used by the Israeli armed forces, would mean that medical staff were better equipped to treat victims of the three week military ca
26 January 2009
As people try to put their lives back together, the threat of renewed
conflict is all too real. The ceasefire has now officially run out, and
there is anxiety about
23 January 2009
Houses have been looted, vandalized and desecrated. Israeli soldiers have left behind not only mounds of litter and excrement but ammunition and other military equipme
22 January 2009
Amnesty International has welcomed the new US administration’s moves to
suspend military commission proceedings at Guantánamo as a “positive
sign&
22 January 2009
Retired army colonel Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega is currently on trial in
the civilian courts for his alleged part in the enforced disappearance
of 11 people in 1985.
22 January 2009
Amnesty International's fact-finding team has visited refugee camps and spoken to survivors of the Israeli
bombardments during the three week long conflict which bega
22 January 2009
The Supreme Court of Uganda has ruled however, that the death penalty per se remains
constitutional.
22 January 2009
Amnesty International's Secretary
General Irene Khan has called President Barack Obama’s executive
order to close the Guantánamo detention facility &quo
21 January 2009
The Turkish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender solidarity
organization, Lambda Istanbul, has won its appeal against the closure
of the association.
21 January 2009
Thousands of people who fled their homes for fear of Israeli attacks, are returning to find them destroyed. The fact-finding mission spoke to them, and to doctors abou
20 January 2009
Questions and answers with Somali human rights activist, Zam Zam Adbullahi.
20 January 2009
Israeli shelling has flattened previously busy neighbourhoods into moonscapes. 'There is no camera lens wide enough to embrace the sheer dimensions of the devastation.
19 January 2009
An Amnesty International fact-finding team has described how
they found evidence of widespread use of white phosphorus by that the
Israeli army in densely populated
19 January 2009
Two years ago, the journalist and human rights defender was killed in Turkey for the expression of his non-violent opinions. Those responsible still haven't been broug
