Press releases in 2001

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...

The awards, made at a ceremony at BAFTA in London on the evening of Tuesday 10 July - and this year hosted by Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, recognise excellence in human rights...

'For Mexico to turn over a new leaf and finally rid itself of the shame of torture, what is needed is a root and branch reform of the judicial system and the promotion among its members of a culture...

'Like the other 'Strike Hard' campaigns before it, this crackdown is unlikely to have a lasting impact on China's growing crime problem. The campaign is nothing short of an execution frenzy - a huge...

The new guidelines reportedly allow Israeli security forces to take action against 'known terrorists' even if they are not on the verge of committing an attack. According to media reports, Israel's...

In the letters, Amnesty International detailed a number of recent human rights abuses directed against the Guatemalan judiciary, journalists, and human rights workers, both Guatemalan and foreign in...

'The Argentine government must now cooperate in the search for justice in relation to the human rights violations committed during the military government (1976 - 1983) and to redress the persistent...

'The People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), paid and armed by the government, has been perpetuating a pattern of systematic abuses,' the organisation said. Fifteen Children's rights...