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African Union Summit: All Countries Must Co-Operate with Special Court for Sierra Leone

The Special Court has indicted Liberian President Charles Taylor for 'bearing the greatest responsibility' for war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international...

Afghanistan: Irene Khan Issues Warning on a Country 'Living in Fear'

The human rights organisation, conducting meetings this week with President Karzai, Afghan minister for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's affairs and other officials and...

Jamaica:Failure of commission to provide justice for 27 murdered in West Kingston

The organisation's report, on the anniversary of the incident, calls for an independent judicial enquiry to be set up with international support. No evidence was heard at the Inquiry from any of the...

USA: Guantánamo Bay military trials would be a travesty of justice

The warning came in response to yesterday's decision by President Bush to name six detainees under the Military Order he signed in November 2001. The human rights organisation believes that this is...

Costa Rica: Authorities must pursue justice for Medina

Amnesty International said: 'Medina's murder was the first known murder of a journalist in modern Costa Rica, and it shocked that normally peaceful society. Now, two years later, the authorities'...

UK Armed Forces: Institutional acquiescence in rape of hundreds of Kenyan Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights?

'The fact that so many rape claims over such a long period of time were neither investigated nor prosecuted shows a systemic failure of the UK army and may amount to institutional acquiescence which...