Press releases in 2006

As Tony Blair prepares for talks with US President Bush in Washington today, Amnesty International said the Prime Minister should call for the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to be closed...

Amnesty International today welcomes the report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) calling on the government to investigate allegations of extraordinary rendition flights through UK...

Speaking at the launch of Amnesty International Report 2006, the organisation’s Secretary General Irene Khan said that the security agenda of the powerful and privileged had diverted the energy and...

Amnesty International Wales and the British Association of Social Workers (Wales) are challenging ‘real men’ from all over Wales to get involved in the campaign to Women's rights's rights's rightss...

Mae Amnest Rhyngwladol Cymru a Chymdeithas Brydeinig Gweithwyr Cymdeithasol (Cymru) yn herio ‘dynion go iawn’ o Gymru gyfan i gymryd rhan yn yr ymgyrch i Atal Trais yn erbyn Merched. Bydd y ddwy...

Snow Patrol are backing a new Amnesty International campaign to bring justice to the war-torn Darfur region of southern Sudan. This Northern Ireland rockers are providing the soundtrack to a new...

Amnesty International is publishing a Memorandum to the Chinese authorities on the proposed reform of the ‘Re-education through Labour’ laws and detention without trial through public order...

Amnesty International today revealed that six planes used by the CIA for renditions have made some 800 flights in European airspace including 50 landings at Shannon airport in the Republic of Ireland...

Amnesty International (AI) welcomes the call from the European Union Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini for European governments to cooperate fully with the Council of Europe's investigation into...

Amnesty International UK will host a public debate on Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s human rights and fundamentalism at its Human Rights Action Centre (Shoreditch, East...