Press releases in 2001

'For Jamaica to turn over a new leaf and move towards a more peaceful society, everyone - from the most influential politician downwards - must make a contribution to stopping the violence,' the...

Richard Bunting, Director of Communications at Amnesty International UK, said: 'It is a terrible irony that as the Chinese authorities have campaigned to host the 2008 Olympics, repression and...

President Putin's statement is a sign of a high political will and wisdom, Amnesty International said today. President Putin was reported as saying yesterday in televised remarks from a Kremlin...

'Executions by stoning aggravate the brutality of the death penalty, which in itself is the most extreme form of torture and the ultimate violation of the right to life. It is a method specifically...

'All too often human rights have been considered subordinate to political considerations. Ordinary people have had to bear the brunt of political actors wishing to score a point. We appeal to all...

José Pinheiro de Lima, his wife and 15-year old son were killed by gunmen in their home in Morada Nova, Marabá, on 9 July - only five days after another peasant worker, Manoel Messias Colono de...

'Once again we call on the Slovak authorities to respect their commitments under international treaties and to protect the fundamental rights of all individuals in Slovakia, without discriminating on...

Despite the extent of this abuse, some governments are deliberately attempting to exclude reference to obligatory human rights standards from the Program of Action to be agreed at the UN Conference...

According to press reports, charges against former President Augusto Pinochet were suspended 'temporarily but indefinitely' as he was deemed unfit to stand trial. Amnesty International expressed its...

It is imperative that people like Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are arrested to face these charges Amnesty International said, both for the sake of the thousands of victims of the human rights...