Press releases in 2000

'Already struggling to feed their families and educate their Children's rights, Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in Burma also face human rights violations on a massive scale...

Arms should not be made available to any forces which include as combatants Children's rights under the age of 18. Protection of Sierra Leonean civilians from further human rights abuse and long-term...

Amnesty International has welcomed committments and has asked the government for details of the composition, frame of reference and progress of the inquiries. Only the last of the following incidents...

For 16 years, Lebanese detainees have been held without charge or trial and systematically tortured in Khiam Detention Centre. For seven years the detainees were held cut off from the outside world...

The organisation called today for a retrial, and for a new examination of the evidence. 'The presumption of innocence of each of the accused was not respected,' Amnesty International said. The judge...

Judge Servini, who is in charge of the investigation into the cases of Children's rights who ' disappeared during the military government, publicly denounced on 15 May death threats to herself and a...

Mikhail Chigir was sentenced today by the City Court in Minsk to three years imprisonment - two of which were suspended - for alleged abuse of power relating to a position he held as head of a bank...

Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of anyone held for his or her race, ethnic background or political opinion. 'We appeal to the commanders of the security forces...

No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing which also injured 90 people, 64 of them civilians. The majority of the victims were members of the Tamil community who were gathered at a Buddhist...

In the past three years alone, more than 25 Colombian human rights activists have been killed, a similar number have narrowly escaped murder, and at least 40 have fled the country fearing for their...