Press releases in 2000

Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK, said: 'Locking people up is not going to improve the asylum system. Detention will risk adding to the misery of those escaping from human rights...

Bhutan and Nepal started negotiations to solve the problem of the people in the refugee camps in November 1992. Since then, nine ministerial-level meetings between both countries have taken place. At...

'This trial is a crucial step towards addressing human rights violations committed under the military dictatorship' the organisation continued. 'The Haitian authorities should make full use of this...

Mohammed Lathif Baithullah, who is also a police officer, was killed and so were his bodyguards. But the large majority of those killed were civilians and it is clear that their killing was in...

Although President Milosevic has been formally indicted to appear before the ICTY at The Hague in the Netherlands, there is widespread media speculation that diplomatic moves to ensure he avoids...

'The dead civilians, among them young Children's rights , include those uninvolved in the conflict and seeking safety,' the human rights organisation said, 'The loss of civilian life is devastating...