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13 March 2008
The Chinese authorities have engaged in a number of troubling crackdowns on activists and minority groups in the past week.
13 March 2008
Despite the storm force winds and heavy rain, Amnesty International
members held a vigil outside the Embassy of Georgia in London on
Tuesday.
11 March 2008
The Israeli army demolished more homes in Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning.
10 March 2008
Louise Arbour has confirmed that she is to resign from her position as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
07 March 2008
The Ukrainian government forcibly returned 11 ethnic Tamil asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka this week.
06 March 2008
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, women across the world will take to the streets to express their commitment to the defence of human rights, often at great
06 March 2008
Three members of the so-called Bali Nine have had their death sentences
reduced to life imprisonment following a judicial review by the Supreme
Court.
04 March 2008
Iranian feminist and journalist Parvin Ardalan was prevented from
leaving Iran on Sunday to travel to Sweden where she was to receive the
2007 Olof Palme Prize in St
03 March 2008
Journalists in Somalia are being killed for reporting the truth about
the country's bloody conflict.
03 March 2008
Israeli military air strikes and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip
during the last few days have killed over 100 Palestinians, including
dozens of children and oth
29 February 2008
Three years after the murder of Azerbaijani journalist Elmar Hüseynov, assaults on opposition journalists continue.
29 February 2008
Cuba signed two major human rights treaties at the UN in New York on Thursday.
28 February 2008
Anti-death penalty campaigners have urged Chinese legislators to take "concrete steps" towards abolishing the death penalty.
28 February 2008
Egyptian security forces shot dead another woman trying to cross into Israel on Saturday.
28 February 2008
Four more hostages have been released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
28 February 2008
The European Court of Human Rights has re-affirmed the absolute
prohibition of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment.
27 February 2008
Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou, a former deputy editor of a Belarusian newspaper, has been released early from prison.
27 February 2008
Amnesty International has received evidence that the French government
knew about the whereabouts of three detained senior Chadian opposition
figures as early as 11
27 February 2008
A 26-year-old IT engineer has been given a three-year prison term and
fined 10,000 dirhams (US$1,320) for creating a profile of Morocco's
Prince Moulay Rachid on Fac
26 February 2008
In early February, an Amnesty International delegation travelled to
Kenya, investigating human rights violations that have occurred during
the post-election violence
