Press releases in 2002

Corporate policy makers from FTSE-listed companies will be meeting with human rights advocates and fund managers to discuss the potential business risks associated with human rights abuses in the...

Panic has spread amongst the civilian population amidst reports that security forces have been carrying out the detention and forcible recruitment of young men and boys, and harassment and arrests...

'The process as envisaged by the Cambodian authorities fell short of required internationally recognised standards for fair trials, and it is for the UN to ensure that these standards are maintained,'...

On 7 February General Gallardo, a prisoner of conscience detained for over eight years, was released after President Fox ordered that his sentence be reduced to time served. Amnesty International...

'Since 1992, despite Algeria's obligations under domestic law and international human rights standards, successive governments have not only failed to take the necessary measures to ensure that...

Meeting for the first time since 2000, the National Assembly was told by President Issayas Afewerki that eleven former government officials, arrested in September 2001, and who have remained in...

Passaic County Jail and the Hudson County Correctional Facility are run by the local county, but have contracts with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to house INS detainees. Amnesty...

'We saw both populations, Palestinians and Jews, living in fear. Every Palestinian in the Occupied Territories is affected in a cycle of repression which is bringing people to despair. Israelis are...

According to MBDHP, the unburied dead bodies were found handcuffed, bullet-ridden and 'thrown to the dogs and vultures'. Reports say the bodies were found throughout the country, in areas such as Bobo...

All three men are members of the Association Modeste et Innocent(AMI), the Modeste and Innocent Association, a Rwandese non-governmental organisation working to promote individual dignity and national...