Press releases in 2006

Amnesty International today (20 July) urged users of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google to use their power as consumers to help end corporate complicity in suppression of the internet in China. The call to...

Amnesty International today (20 July) urged users of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google to use their power as consumers to help end corporate complicity in suppression of the internet in China. The call to...

As the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) prepares to elect a new government for the first time since it achieved independence in 1960, Amnesty International today called on all candidates in the...

As a critical pledging conference between the European Union and African Union opens today in Brussels, Amnesty International released a paper which called for a strengthening and reinforcement of the...

Amnesty International today called on the UN Security Council to meet urgently in order to adopt measures to protect civilians caught up in the deepening Israel-Lebanon conflict. Specifically, Amnesty...

The number of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights being murdered in Guatemala has risen for the fourth consecutive year since 2001 as the government fails to effectively...

Amnesty International expresses grave concern about continuing violence in a remote forest region of Chattisgarh state in central India. On the night of 17 July, suspected Maoists belonging to the...

The Israeli and Lebanese governments, and Hizbullah, must take immediate steps to end the ongoing attacks against civilians and civilian objects, said Amnesty International today (13 July). Such...

At a meeting with Akbar Ganji, Iran’s most prominent ex-prisoner of conscience and advocate of freedom of expression, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan renewed the organisation’s...

Responding to reports that Tony Blair and Algeria’s President Bouteflika may have today reached agreements concerning the return of UK terrorist suspects to Algeria despite the risk of torture...