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26 June 2008
To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International members and supporters are taking action around the world.
20 June 2008
Victims allegedly abducted by ZANU-PF supporters who, in some instances, were
accompanied by armed men believed to be government agents.
20 June 2008
Mohammed Jawad and Omar Khadr were under 18 at the time of their detention by the US military in Afghanistan. Their pre-trial hearings resumed this week.
20 June 2008
In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International calls
on states to reaffirm everyo
20 June 2008
Amnesty International has made public the human rights agenda for the
Spanish government’s second term, presented a review of progress to date and made a
numbe
19 June 2008
The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a new legal
instrument to strengthen the protection of economic, social and
cultural rights.
18 June 2008
On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of
Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
to challenge
16 June 2008
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan, is leading a mission to Spain to meet with government officials, human rights organizations, survivors of human
16 June 2008
Nine women attempting to take part in a small, peaceful seminar to
commemorate a day of solidarity with Iranian women were arrested in
Tehran on Thursday.
13 June 2008
Reports indicate that the Egyptian authorities have deported some 700
Eritrean asylum-seekers to Massawa in Eritrea, on special daily Egypt
Air flights from Aswan In
11 June 2008
UK Members of Parliament have voted to extend yet further the maximum period of pre-charge detention for terror suspects.
11 June 2008
A Kurdish boy, believed to be 16 or 17 years old at the time of execution, was executed in Iran on Tuesday.
11 June 2008
Amnesty International has accused the international community and the
Afghan government of not meeting their pledge to provide the Afghan
people, particularly women
06 June 2008
The government of Zimbabwe has banned field operations by non-governmental organisations in the country.
06 June 2008
Amnesty International has received reports of police using excessive
force against demonstrators protesting against US beef imports in South
Korea.
05 June 2008
Uzbekistani human rights defender Mutabar Tadzhibaeva, who was
sentenced to eight years in prison in 2006, was unexpectedly released
on Monday, 2 June.
05 June 2008
In June 2008, Amnesty International will campaign worldwide to end the use of torture and other ill-treatment.
05 June 2008
The Gay Pride march in Riga on Saturday may have passed
largely without incident, but elsewhere in Europe, the right of
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
04 June 2008
Amnesty International has condemned the detention of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, saying that his
detention was part of a sudden, sharp and dangerous crackdown on
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