Annual Report 2012
The state of the world's human rights

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USA: Execution nears for man with mental illness: Abdul Hamin ...
29 May 2012

A Lebanese national with a history of mental illness is due to be executed in the US state of Ohio on 6 June 2012 for a double murder committed in 1992. The parole ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/039/2012

Mexico: Documentation of the case of José Ramón Aniceto Gómez ...
25 May 2012

José Ramón Aniceto Gómez and Pascual Agustín Cruz are indigenous human rights defenders from the Nahuan community of Atla. In 2010, they were detained, tried and ...

Document       AMR 41/035/2012

Mexico: Human rights must be at the heart of the electoral agenda
25 May 2012

Mexico is preparing for elections that will set its path for the next six years. However, the need to strengthen the protection and effective exercise of human ...

Document       AMR 41/036/2012

Haiti: Further information: Haiti families “will not be forcibly ...
25 May 2012

A representative of the man claiming to be the landowner of Grace Village camp in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince has promised that residents will be not be forcibly ...

Urgent Action       AMR 36/005/2012

Report 2012: No longer business as usual for tyranny and injustice ...
24 May 2012

Amnesty International releases its flagship yearly report documenting the state of the world's human rights.

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USA: Albert Woodfox of the 'Angola 3' back in federal court
24 May 2012

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AMR 51/037/2012. 24 May 2012. USA: Albert Woodfox of the 'Angola 3' back in federal court. ...

Public Statement       AMR 51/037/2012

Mexico: Death threat for human rights lawyer: Vidulfo Rosales ...
23 May 2012

Human rights defender and lawyer, Vidulfo Rosales Sierra, from Guerrero State, Mexico received an anonymous death threat on 4 May. His life and those of his colleagues ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/034/2012

USA (Montana): Further information: Clemency decision goes to ...
23 May 2012

The Montana parole board has voted against clemency for Ronald Smith, a Canadian man on the state's death row for a double murder committed 30 years ago. This vote ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/035/2012

Jamaica: One more year without justice
22 May 2012

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. Index: AMR 38/002/2012. 22 May 2012. Jamaica: One more year without justice. Two years have passed with no answers. ...

Public Statement       AMR 38/002/2012

Haiti: Risk of forced eviction for families in Haiti
21 May 2012

Three hundred families who were left homeless after the January 2010 earthquake face imminent forced eviction from their makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince. Amnesty ...

Urgent Action       AMR 36/004/2012