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Publication Date: 20 November 2009

Ohio moves to resume executions under new protocol

Publication Date: 18 November 2009

Future of Guantánamo detainees must be resolved

President Barack Obama has acknowledged that his administration will not meet his deadline for the closure of the military facility in Cuba.

Publication Date: 16 November 2009

US must reform Afghanistan detention policy as new facility opens

Publication Date: 13 November 2009

Obama must press China to uphold human rights

Publication Date: 13 November 2009

Indigenous teacher missing in Brazil after violence over ancestral lands

Brazilian and Paraguayan authorities must redouble their efforts to find an indigenous teacher who has been missing since 30 October.

Publication Date: 10 November 2009

Paraguay indigenous community threatened by illegal eviction and pesticide attack

Amnesty International has condemned the use of apparently toxic pesticides to intimidate an indigenous community after they resisted being forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands.

Publication Date: 06 November 2009

Nicaragua's Constitutional Court must decide on legality of new abortion law

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.

Publication Date: 05 November 2009

Convictions in Abu Omar rendition case a step toward accountability

US and Italian intelligence agents are convicted for their involvement in the abduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar).

Publication Date: 04 November 2009

Acts of torture by Guyanese police must be punished

Amnesty International has urged the Guyanese authorities to charge police officers involved in the torture and ill-treatment of three individuals who were detained in relation to a murder investigation.

Publication Date: 29 October 2009

Obama should follow UN lead on Cuba embargo

In a record vote of the UN General Assembly, 187 countries said the US should end its embargo against Cuba

Publication Date: 28 October 2009

Mexico must investigate torture of two peasant farmers

Two members of a peasant organization in Chiapas State, currently held in a state prison, were blindfolded, bound and beaten during their interrogation.

Publication Date: 27 October 2009

Honduras radio journalists dealt further blow to freedom of expression

Three programmes have been cancelled by a popular radio station, because their broadcasts 'failed to promote peace' and 'discredited' the electoral process.

Publication Date: 23 October 2009

Peru one step closer to legalising abortion

The Peruvian Congress' has decided to stand by its proposal to decriminalize abortion in cases where women and girls become pregnant as a result of rape or incest.

Publication Date: 20 October 2009

Uruguay must annul law that protects police and military torture suspects

A law in Uruguay that has allowed the police and military to get away with torture and murder should be annulled.

Publication Date: 20 October 2009

Peru must build on plans to legalise abortion

Amnesty International has called on the Peruvian authorities to step up recent efforts to decriminalise abortion in the country.

Publication Date: 19 October 2009

Colombian human rights activist seriously injured in gun attack

The invaluable work carried out by human rights defenders in Colombia must be respected by all the parties to the armed conflict, Amnesty International has said.

Publication Date: 16 October 2009

Paraguayan indigenous families left homeless after bill rejected

Amnesty International has criticised the Paraguayan Congress for rejecting a draft bill that would have returned ancestral land to the Yakye Axa indigenous community.

Publication Date: 16 October 2009

Sister Helen Prejean: Educating against the death penalty

Sister Helen Prejean gives Amnesty International her personal account on how educating people on the issue of the death penalty can make a difference.

Publication Date: 15 October 2009

The Unheard Truth: World leaders must change debate on poverty and human rights

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.

Publication Date: 13 October 2009

Blogger denied freedom to travel outside Cuba

Yoani Sánchez was due to accept an award for her journalism in New York. This is the fourth time she has been refused permission by the authorities to travel outside Cuba in the past two years.