In a report released today, 'Collateral Damage' or Unlawful Killings? Violations of the Laws of War by NATO during Operation Allied Force, Amnesty International examines a number of attacks indicating...

The attack was reported to have been carried out by a male suicide bomber, thought to have been a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). He approached Mr Gooneratne during a parade to...

'The prisoners, their lawyers and their families are unable to obtain official confirmation of the names of those scheduled for execution. If the Japanese government is not ashamed of the death...

Information gathered by Amnesty International, including during a fact-finding visit to south Lebanon, suggests that in at least four incidents on 22 and 23 May 2000 Israeli forces directed tank fire...

According to Russian sources, Taisa Isayeva, who works for Chechen-Press news agency based in Georgia, was detained at the border because she was carrying a video camera and a portable computer...

The Beijing Platform for Action, a blueprint for achieving Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's equality, development and peace, was adopted at the Fourth World Conference for...

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The human rights organisation and other Non Governmental Organizations(NGOs) will be attending the meeting of the OAS General Assembly in Windsor, Canada, from 4 to 6 June and have prepared a joint...

'The 30-day reprieve granted to Ricky McGinn shows that even a state that has executed men and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights at a rate of one every two weeks for the past...

Pedro Rax had been convicted of the 1996 murder of his wife and condemned to die by lethal injection. President Portillo yesterday commuted his sentence from death to 30 years' imprisonment. 'Besides...