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25 March 2009
Amnesty International says the visit of the Sudanese President to Egypt, should have been an opportunity to enforce the arrest warrant for war crimes issued by the Int
05 March 2009
The expulsions came soon after the International Criminal
Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al
Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes a
04 March 2009
Sudanese authorities have a legal obligation to arrest President al Bashir, who has been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed during the conf
11 February 2009
Two journalists have been attacked, one fatally, in less than a week in Somalia.
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
19 December 2008
A former senior defence official was convicted on Thursday of
instigating Rwanda's 1994 genocide and committing crimes against
humanity and war crimes.
15 December 2008
Armed groups in the DRC have been able to get hold of weapons, ammunition, military equipment and other supplies; the subsequent fighting has forced
nearly 300,000 pe
10 December 2008
Irene Khan writes about the continuing human rights issues around the world as Amnesty International celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Hu
02 December 2008
The United Nations is not doing enough to help protect civilians in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, warns Amnesty International.
27 November 2008
Activists are demonstrating around the world to call for urgent and
effective protection of civilians in Eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo.
18 November 2008
Over forty organizations active in Africa warn that the situation in the eastern DRC is at risk of turning into a
humanitarian catastrophe, as the civilian death toll
11 November 2008
More than 250,000 people have so far fled the ongoing violence,
bringing the total number of displaced people in the province to at least 1.2
million.
30 October 2008
The humanitarian and human rights crisis in North Kivu province is worsening rapidly as rebel forces threaten to overwhelm government troops and the UN peacekeeping fo
16 October 2008
Chile's Supreme Court jailed five retired military officials on
Wednesday for involvement in the "Caravan of Death" – one of the cases
for which Augu
20 August 2008
After eight alleged members of the Justice and Equality Movement were sentenced to death by Sudan's Anti-Terrorism Special Courts, the government prepares to try anoth
23 May 2008
Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the Sudanese security
forces’ crackdown following the incursion into Khartoum, by an armed
group.
24 April 2008
Ethiopian forces and forces of the Transitional Federal Government of
Somalia (TFG) have been accused of targeting civilians in an attack on
a Mogadishu mosque that
22 April 2008
Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the
release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been
abducted by the Lord’s R
03 March 2008
Journalists in Somalia are being killed for reporting the truth about
the country's bloody conflict.
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
