Press releases in 2002

Muktinath Adhikari was reportedly abducted by Maoists on 16 January while teaching at the Pandini Sanskrit Secondary school at Duradanda, Lamjung district. A group of four Maoists tied his hands...

The delegation will meet with a wide range of human rights activists as well as victims of human rights violations during visits to Jayapura, Manokwari and Wamena. The organisation also hopes to meet...

Amnesty International is concerned that although the the EU Presidency in effect endorsed these recommendations at the 2001 UN Commission on Human Rights, and the European Parliament has issued...

The 51-page report, Rights at Risk, examines pre-existing repressive legislation and newly-introduced measures in countries that include Egypt, Zimbabwe, Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and...

The organisation urged the parties to the talks to make sure that the protection of basic human rights is at the heart of any further peace negotiations. As recommended by the United Nations, the...

Abdoulaye Math, President of the Mouvement de la défense des droits de l'homme et des libertés (MDDHL) - Movement for the defence of freedom and human rights - was arrested on 16 January 2002 in...

The Bosnian Federation Supreme Court order under which the men are being held in investigative detention is due to expire tomorrow, 18 January. Amnesty International fears that if transferred to the...

'While efforts from the international community to rebuild the country's physical infrastructure should be further increased, the establishment of government institutions is equally vital for the...

The report, Arbitrary, discriminatory, and cruel: An aide-mémoire to 25 years of judicial killing, recalls some 200 illustrative cases of the men and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights...

''Quiet diplomacy' should not become silent acquiescence to continuing gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe,' Amnesty International said. 'President Robert Mugabe has made promises of human...