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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.

Publication Date: 09 October 2009

Amnesty International urges President Obama to build on Nobel Peace Prize win

US President Barack Obama must keep justice, human rights and the rule of law at the centre of his efforts to promote peace.

Publication Date: 09 October 2009

Texas execution looms after jury consult Bible

A Texas man who faces execution after jurors at his trial consulted the Bible when deliberating his fate should have his death sentence commuted, Amnesty International has said.

Publication Date: 09 October 2009

Honduras must allow journalists to broadcast freely

Publication Date: 01 October 2009

Mexico must not repatriate injured migrants

The three men were part of a group of seven undocumented migrants from El Salvador and Ecuador who where shot at by Mexican security forces as they crossed into the state of Chiapas.

Publication Date: 30 September 2009

Increased abuses in Honduras given green light by Executive Decree

Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti urged to rescind a decree that provides sweeping new powers of detention to the police, bans all public meetings and imposes a 45 day curfew.

Publication Date: 30 September 2009

Journalists in Honduras: "They know who we are"

Marvin Ortiz, a journalist with Radio Globo in Honduras, talks to Amnesty International about how the station was forcibly and violently shut down in a joint police and military operation.

Publication Date: 25 September 2009

Several reported dead in Honduras turmoil

Five people are reported to have been killed during a week of violent political unrest in Honduras.

Publication Date: 24 September 2009

Beatings and detentions follow Honduras demonstrations

Amnesty International has received continuing reports of numerous demonstrators being beaten by police and some several hundred detained across Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras.

Publication Date: 24 September 2009

Campaigner, rock musician and parliamentarian visit Troy Davis

An Amnesty International campaigner, a musician and a member of the UK parliament are visiting death row inmate Troy Davis in the US state of Georgia.

Publication Date: 18 September 2009

Irene Khan urges US government to examine Goldstone report

Amnesty International's Secretary General has urged the White House to refer the report on violations of international law committed in Gaza to the UN Security Council.

Publication Date: 17 September 2009

Freedom for Indigenous Mexican woman wrongly imprisoned for three years

Amnesty International welcomes the release of Mexican prisoner of conscience Jacinta Francisco Marcial.

Publication Date: 16 September 2009

Iraqi authorities must investigate shoe throwing journalist's torture allegations

Muntadhar al-Zaidi has been released after nine months in prison for throwing his shoes at former US President George W Bush. He has said that he was tortured by Iraqi security services.

Publication Date: 15 September 2009

Obama renews Cuba trade embargo

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.

Publication Date: 14 September 2009

Changes to Dominican Republic Constitution will put women's lives in danger

The proposed changes could lead to a ban on abortions, putting the lives of women and girls at risk and potentially increasing maternal deaths in the country.

Publication Date: 03 September 2009

Chile issues arrest warrants against at least 120 Pinochet agents

Chilean Judge Victor Montiglio issued the arrest warrants against the agents in relation to a number of security operations that targeted opponents of Augusto Pinochet during the 1970s.

Publication Date: 28 August 2009

Third mass killing of Colombia's Awá Indigenous Peoples in 2009

Twelve people, including four children, all thought to be members of the same family, have been killed by unidentified gunmen. This is the third such killing in less than a year.