All News
22 January 2010
US authorities and UN agencies in Haiti must urgently resolve the lack
of access to emergency aid for those in desperate need following last
week's earthquake.
15 January 2010
Amnesty International called on the UN to put in place
measures for the protection of human rights and the most vulnerable
among the survivors of devastating earthquake.
11 December 2009
People living on the land in Chihuahua State, northern Mexico, have been intimidated and attacked for six years. Last week, a woman was shot and injured at her home.
06 November 2009
Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Nicaraguan Supreme
Court continues to delay its judgment on the legality of new criminal
laws on abortion which entered into force in 2008.
20 October 2009
Amnesty International has called on the Peruvian authorities to step up recent efforts to decriminalise abortion in the country.
16 October 2009
Amnesty International has criticised the Paraguayan Congress for
rejecting a draft bill that would have returned ancestral land to the
Yakye Axa indigenous community.
15 October 2009
Amnesty International's Secretary General has called on world leaders and policy makers to
shift the debate on poverty from economics to addressing the human
rights problems that impoverish and keep people poor.
15 September 2009
US President Barack Obama has extended the trade
embargo against Cuba - missing an opportunity to improve the
human rights situation for people on the island.
28 August 2009
Following a large-scale police operation, the families are now sleeping under plastic sheeting on land opposite the site of the
eviction. They are without food or blankets in cold, wet conditions.
23 July 2009
A Brazilian organization has thanked Amnesty International after an
action by the organization brought safety to a peasant farmer and land
rights activist.
09 June 2009
Nine demonstrators and 24 police officers were confirmed killed during
protests by Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon town of
Bagua.
28 May 2009
Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20
grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by
example and show
28 May 2009
More than six decades of human rights failures by governments have been
exacerbated by the world economic crisis, which brought the problems of
poverty and inequalit
27 May 2009
A new Amnesty International campaign will empower "prisoners of poverty" as previous
campaigns empowered prisoners of conscience.
20 April 2009
The
Declaration of Commitment of Port of Spain fails to lay out a clear human rights framework for
progress in the areas of human prosperity, energy security and env
16 April 2009
An Amnesty International delegation has arrived in Trinidad and Tobago to take part in the Summit of the Americas.
02 April 2009
Eight of the world's leading NGOs urge the G20 leaders to take long-term decisions in the interests of people and the planet this week.
28 January 2009
Those who watched Barack Obama take office on 20 January were part of a
far-reaching celebration of the once seemingly impossible becoming
reality.
28 January 2009
In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama rejected as "false" the choice between safety and respect for human rights.
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.
