Press releases in 2004

Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Program, said: “The law is a direct attack on human rights in Zimbabwe and should be immediately repealed.” The Non-governmental...

Amnesty International UK Director of Refugee Affairs Jan Shaw said: 'We welcome today’s decision as an important recognition that an asylum system should provide a completely equal-handed process...

Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls are the 'collateral damage' in 36 conflicts around the world, said Amnesty International today (Wednesday 8 December), as it...

Reacting to the High Court ruling today (8 December) that the police were not acting unlawfully by preventing a coach of demonstrators reaching the US Air base at Fairford, an Amnesty International...

The event, ‘Voices in the dark’, will see leading Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s human rights activists from conflict zones join with dozens of British Women's...

Trafficking, for both sexual and labour exploitation, is a huge problem in the UK, affecting Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights, Children's rights and men throughout the...

They include: a 45-year-old man imprisoned for revealing the demolition of Protestant churches and repression of religion; another detained for protesting at the forced relocation of families from...

These organisations, who together form the Control Arms campaign, understand from sources close to the investigation that the gun used, a Croatian made HS-95 9mm Automatic pistol, was part of a batch...

The report, Sudan: no one to complain to , describes how hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur are being denied justice and left without protection from killings, torture, rape and displacement...

An Amnesty International delegation observed the trial from its commencement on 23 August 2004. Neither the verdict nor the sentences were translated, and the defendants left court with no knowledge...