Press releases in 2000

'All forces party to the conflict, both rebel forces and government-allied forces, must respect international human rights and humanitarian law and immediately end abuses against civilians,' Amnesty...

Dozens of people - all of them ethnic Albanians - from Aracinovo village and Skopje town were tortured , beaten or otherwise ill-treated following the murder of three police officers at the village on...

Once again, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has failed to respond to concerns that grave and massive human rights violations will be ignored and the perpetrators will be allowed to go unpunished...

'Using the death penalty against the mentally ill and those convicted of crimes committed when they were Children's rights clearly flouts international safeguards,' Amnesty International said. 'The...

Children's rights have been among the principal victims of the internal armed conflict in Sierra Leone and have suffered both disproportionately and on an unprecedented scale. Hundreds of thousands of...

The draft law would allow the Chief of General Staff of Israel's armed forces to imprison indefinitely without charge or trial any person who is a member of a force fighting against Israel or who...

Many asylum-seekers are fleeing the risk of imprisonment, torture or death and are forced to take desperate steps to reach safety. The discovery of 54 men and four Women's rights's rightss rights's...

In a widely trailed speech to a high-level European Union asylum conference in Lisbon, Mr Straw is expected to call for the rewriting of the Convention to require asylum seekers to apply for shelter...

Although Freetown is relatively stable, Amnesty International researchers in the country are receiving reports of continuing human rights abuses in areas of Sierra Leone controlled by rebel forces or...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has published today the Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the...