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Jan 31 2010 11:10AM
Arrest for corrupt payments related to BAE sales

A BAE middleman has been arrested and held , charged with conspiring to make corrupt payments to promote the sale of fighter planes to Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary. The Attorney General, Lady Scotland, has not yet allowed the...

Jan 29 2010 4:09PM
women and girls shouldn't be overlooked in Haiti

As the glare of the media spotlight fades from Haiti, the reconstruction and relief effort is only just beginning – and there’s where we need to ensure that women and girls’ rights is not forgotten. In 2008 Amnesty produced a report...

Jan 29 2010 3:13PM
Human Rights in Haiti: Belfast seminar

Paige Jennings, who used to be an Amnesty researcher on Haiti and a former UN human rights observer there, recently blogged here about the situation post-earthquake. She'll be giving further reflections in person next week in a seminar...

Jan 29 2010 1:10PM
China Human Rights Briefing  28 January  2010

Headlines Nine Schools for Children of Migrant Workers Set to Be Demolished in Beijing’s Chaoyang District Hunan Village Representative Arrested for Complaining about Local Corruption Rightto Education NineSchools for Children of...

Jan 29 2010 9:50AM
Northern Ireland offered pale shadow of Bill of Rights

Published today in the Belfast Telegraph : -------------------------------------------------------- Colin Harvey is dead right in his assertion that – whatever the outcome of the discussions over the devolution of policing and justice...