Press releases in 2003

Amnesty International UK Media Director, Lesley Warner, said: 'By honouring Shirin the Nobel Committee has recognised the critical importance of human rights and the individuals who defend them around...

Arms proliferation and abuse, have reached a critical point, fuelling human rights violations, poverty, and conflict. Someone is killed every minute by armed violence while many more suffer abuse and...

On the eve of the handing over of his reports, four international and domestic human rights non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have urged the United Kingdom and Irish governments to commit...

Two years after the beginning of the military action against the Taleban, the Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights of Afghanistan are still subject to horrific abuses, from...

'Enough time has passed to evaluate the overwhelming evidence that the seven were extrajudicially executed,' Amnesty International said today, 'this seems to be another example of the authorities'...

Thousands of Children's rights are denied their basic rights in Children's rights's homes in Russia, Amnesty International said today (2 October 2003), as it published a new report on Russia's human...

The men are detained purely for their political and religious beliefs, and there are serious concerns about their conditions of detention and lack of access to medical care. In a special report...

While the jury was considering its sentence during the 1994 trial, the prosecutor argued that because Mr Hartman was gay the sexual abuse he had suffered as a child should not be considered as...

According to her defence lawyer, Amina Lawal was freed from the threat of punishment on the grounds that neither the conviction nor the confession were legally valid. This meant that no offence as...

The report, Yemen: the rule of law sidelined in the name of security , shows that in the months following the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington, Yemen embarked upon mass arrests, extra...