Press releases in 2005

Since 2001 there has been a continuing increase in the number of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights killed as a result of gender-based violence inflicted by their partner or...

Reverend Pham Ngoc Lien (Tri), of the Congregation of the Mother Coredemptrix (CMC), and Le Thi Hong Lien, a young member of the Mennonite Christian Church, were released on 28 April 2005, under a...

In a new report, Zimbabwe: Human Rights Defenders Under Siege , Amnesty International catalogues the misuse of state power against those who campaign to protect human rights. These include: the...

After the screening there will be a special panel event comprising: Mohammad Bakri, distinguished Palestinian actor and director who plays the film's lead character Ahmad Samih Khalidi, Palestinian...

On 18 April 2005 the Law Lords agreed to allow the above-mentioned coalition to intervene in the forthcoming appeal before their Lordships arising from an August 2004 ruling of the Court of Appeal of...

The three organisations pointed out that the lifting of the State of Emergency occurred almost simultaneously with the publication of an order by the Kathmandu District Authority against public...

The Russian Federation, Belarus and Turkey are among the countries in Europe and Central Asia with the poorest record of government harassment and persecution of people for peacefully exercising these...