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...

Earlier this week the UN Committee against Torture criticized the USA about 'the number of cases of police ill-treatment of civilians...'. The misuse of pepper spray by US police was one of a number...

The human rights organisation called on President Mugabe, the government and the police authorities of Zimbabwe to ensure that this electoral process is peaceful. In the run-up to the elections...

Amnesty International has always maintained that the viability of the peace agreement, signed in July 1999, was undermined from the outset by providing a blanket amnesty. The human rights organisation...

The Israeli government is failing to protect the human rights of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls who are trafficked from countries of the former Soviet Union to...

22 September 1999: Harry Stanley, a 46-year-old Scottish decorator, was shot dead by police after they received a phone call in which the caller mistakenly reported his accent as an Irish one, and the...

The two, members of the Internal Dissidents' Working Group for the Analysis of the Cuban Socio-Economic Situation, were arrested in July 1997 along with two other group members, Vladimiro Roca...

Govinda Prasad Mainali, who was charged with murder in March 1997 and has since been in detention, had his acquittal on 14 April 2000 by the Tokyo District Court overturned by the Tokyo High Court. On...