Press releases in 2006

Amnesty International welcomed today's new legislation under which the Supreme Court would review all death penalty verdicts in China but urged the authorities to abolish the death penalty once and...

Control Arms Campaign: Amnesty International, International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) and Oxfam International Last night at the United Nations, the majority of the world’s governments took...

Amnesty International today (27 October) issued a ‘Call to Bloggers’, asking them to get online and stand up for freedom of expression on the internet. The organisation says this is a critical time...

Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights continue to be slain in Rio de Janeiro, with little or no reaction from the authorities. Sixty-four-year-old Alice da...

One year after 13 migrants were killed and hundreds were wounded while trying to enter the Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla, a new report from Amnesty International based on victims’ testimonies and...

On the eve of an historic vote to begin work on an Arms Treaty in the UN General Assembly's First Committee, 15 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Oscar Arias and...

A vigil was held today (24 Oct) outside the Russian consulate in Edinburgh in memory of Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya. The vigil, arranged by Amnesty International, also involved handing in a...

A new report released today by Amnesty International reveals a climate of fear in Vietnam, with people afraid to post information online and internet café owners forced to inform on their customers...

Amnesty International leader, Kate Allen, today (20 October) hailed Northern Ireland teachers involved in human rights education as "quiet revolutionaries", who are changing the world by giving...

Amnesty International, Reprieve and Fair Trials Abroad are pleased that Mirza Tahir Hussain will not now be executed on 1 November but reacted with anger that he has today been given a postponement...