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Finland: Follow-up procedure to the forty-sixth session of the ...
17 May 2013

In June 2011, the Committee against Torture (the Committee) expressed concern over Finland's compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman ...

Report       EUR 20/001/2013

USA: Re Guantánamo: A human rights appeal to the US ...
17 May 2013

In recent weeks, the detentions at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay have been back in the spotlight, forced there by the hunger strike in which more than half ...

Document       AMR 51/030/2013

USA: Push USA on new promise to shut Guantánamo
17 May 2013

According to the military authorities, 102 of the 166 detainees in the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba are on hunger strike, with 30 being “tube fed”. In ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/029/2013

Canada: Follow-up procedure to the forty-eighth session of the ...
17 May 2013

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about Canada's lack of progress in implementing the 2012 recommendations of the Committee against Torture (the Committee ...

Report       AMR 20/001/2013

USA shows strong support for new global Arms Trade Treaty ...
16 May 2013

A senior US diplomat has said his government will be quick to sign the new Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a move Amnesty International said raises hopes for swift ...

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New global development agenda must have human rights at its core ...
10 May 2013

World leaders must reject an aid-based model of development and instead pursue an approach that puts human rights and justice at its core.

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USA: Further information: Mississippi execution blocked by state ...
9 May 2013

The Supreme Court of Mississippi granted Willie Manning a stay of execution on 7 May, about five hours before he was due to be put to death. He has been on death ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/027/2013

Lithuania: Abu Zubaydah v. Lithuania: Written submissions on ...
7 May 2013

In this document, Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists make submissions on A) knowledge imputable to the Contracting Parties; B) non ...

Report       EUR 53/002/2013

USA: Execution set amid DNA and racism disputes: Willie Manning
3 May 2013

Willie Manning is due to be executed in Mississippi on 7 May for two murders committed in 1992. He is seeking clemency or at least a stay of execution in order ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/023/2013

USA: "I have no reason to believe that i will ever leave this ...
3 May 2013

The US authorities are yet to acknowledge that the Guantánamo detention regime is contrary to international human rights law. And while the administration continues ...

Report       AMR 51/022/2013