Africa

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): No justice for rape victim ...
8 March 2007

Justice has yet to be served in the case of Bitondo Nyumba,a 56-year-old woman who died as a result of injuries she suffered when she was attacked and raped by ...

ActionDocument       AFR 62/006/2007

Somalia: Further information on prisoners of conscience ...
8 March 2007

Yusuf Abdi Gabobe, the Haatuf (Messenger) publisher, was sentenced on 4 March to two years' imprisonment for obstruction of a police officer. The newspaper's editor ...

Urgent Action       AFR 52/004/2007

Nigeria: Fear for safety/Death threats, Anyakwee Nsirimovu (m)
7 March 2007

Anyakwee Nsirimovu, Executive Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (IHRHL) in Rivers State, in the Niger delta, was attacked on 4 ...

Urgent Action       AFR 44/008/2007

Ethiopia: Further information on Fear of torture or ill-treatment ...
6 March 2007

It is now known that over 60 officials or alleged supporters of the opposition CUD party ( including Endalkachew Melese, Daniel Hailemariamntry,Hirut Kifle, Menbere ...

Urgent Action       AFR 25/004/2007

Human Rights Council, Fourth Session: Building capacity to protect ...
1 March 2007

Amnesty International takes the occasion of the fourth session of the Council to bring a number of situations of grave human rights violations to the attention ...

Report       IOR 41/004/2007

Chad: Civilians under attack: Darfur conflict spreads to eastern ...
1 March 2007

The conflict in Darfur has spread to eastern Chad. Several thousand people have been killed. Thousands of women and girls have been raped. Entire villages have ...

Report       AFR 20/005/2007

The Wire, March 2007. Vol. 37, No. 2
1 March 2007

1) Hmong refugees facing removal from Thailand 2) Sexual violence ignored in Côte d'Ivoire 3) AI at work on the world stage: World Economic Forum; World Social ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/002/2007

Democratic Republic of Congo: Further information on death threat ...
28 February 2007

The illegal order to arrest lawyer ("Maître") Joseph Dunia Ruyenzi was quashed on 23 February at an appeal court hearing held in Goma, eastern DRC. The Goma Prosecutor ...

Urgent Action       AFR 62/007/2007