Press releases in 2005

Instead of committing to negotiate a tough and enforceable Arms Treaty, the G8 Foreign Ministers have made no commitments whatsoever to help prevent arms getting into the hands of gross human rights...

The organisation is launching a global petition calling on the Burmese authorities to stop abusing the justice system to silence peaceful political activists and to immediately and unconditionally...

Amnesty International said: "Forcible return of these people would violate international human rights and refugee law and standards. There are well founded reasons to believe that if returned they are...

G8 weapons have been exported to countries including Sudan, Burma (Burma), the Republic of Congo, Colombia and the Philippines. The report makes a clear case for the G8 to support UK Foreign Secretary...

The organisation suspects that over 25,000 people who have sought asylum in the UK, including Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights, were detained solely...

The human rights organisation said that the decision would fuel worldwide concern over accounts of torture and ill-treatment, religious humiliation and arbitrary detention emerging from the facility...

Presently the UK has already suspended all arms assistance to Nepal but the situation was recently described by the UK government as "under review".(1) The 27-page report, Nepal: Military assistance...

The human rights organisation believes this court cannot provide justice for the crimes committed in Darfur because of the current climate of intimidation, and because an independent and impartial...

Young people from around Scotland debate human rights issues at Amnesty International Conference. 150 school pupils will gather on Tuesday 17th July at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, for the Amnesty...

Currently the same former Belmarsh detainees are subject to control orders under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 - the same measures that were so roundly criticised by the CoE Commissioner for...