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More than eight in ten people (84%) agree that there should be a cross-government strategy to end violence against women Posted: 3 Jul 2008

Amnesty International has responded to today's statement from the Foreign Secretary David Miliband about US 'rendition' flights Posted: 3 Jul 2008

Colonel Karuna returns to Sri Lanka after Met Police fail to build case against him Posted: 3 Jul 2008

Amnesty calls for independent and impartial investigations into killings Posted: 2 Jul 2008

Amnesty International and NUS Wales have today (2nd July) called for the Welsh Assembly Government, and Universities and Colleges in Wales to tackle violence against women Posted: 2 Jul 2008

Amnesty International and NUS Wales come together to highlight significant violence against women issues that need to be tackled on campus. Posted: 1 Jul 2008

Irregular migrants attempting to reach Europe are being arrested, ill-treated and collectively expelled from Mauritania - sometimes not to their home countries - and without opportunity to challenge the decision, according to findings published in an Amnesty International report released today (1 July 2008). Posted: 1 Jul 2008

Amnesty International was on hand today (1 July 2008) at the Central Foundation Girls' School in Mile End, East London, to help launch a new resource for citizenship teachers focusing on human rights. Posted: 1 Jul 2008

Amnesty International has launched a new, animated viral film to urge people in the UK to take action online for human rights in China. The new film was released as Amnesty called on the Chinese authorities to release a cyber-dissident who was snatched by plainclothes police at a restaurant earlier this month. Posted: 30 Jun 2008

Amnesty International today (27 June) launched an urgent appeal for Mahmoud al-Najjar Posted: 26 Jun 2008

Amnesty issues 'Six-point Plan' to combat 'torture flights' Posted: 24 Jun 2008

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has welcomed the release of a pastor who had been detained for five years without charge or trial in Equatorial Guinea. Posted: 24 Jun 2008

On Friday 20 June Amnesty International's Secretary-General Irene Khan wrote an open letter to Posted: 24 Jun 2008

Amnesty International has today (24 June) accused European governments, including Ireland and the UK, of complicity and inaction over US-led rendition and secret detention. Posted: 23 Jun 2008

In a hard-hitting new report published today (23 June), Amnesty International has strongly criticised the Tunisian government for failing to curb torture, extended illegal detention and unfair trials. Posted: 23 Jun 2008

In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day Posted: 20 Jun 2008

Amnesty International has this evening revealed that 12 bodies have been found in various areas of Zimbabwe. Most of the victims appear to have been tortured to death by their abductors. Posted: 19 Jun 2008

Cases rebut Burma's promise to give medical aid to prisoners Posted: 19 Jun 2008

Ahead of US President George Bush's visit to Northern Ireland (16 June), Amnesty International has written to Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness calling on them to raise the issues of Guantánamo Bay, torture and extraordinary rendition when they meet the president. Posted: 18 Jun 2008

Amnesty International and the National Federation of Women's Institutes in Wales hand portrait petition to First Minister at the Senedd. Posted: 18 Jun 2008