Press releases in 2007

Pupils at Malvern Primary School, near Belfast's Shankill Road, will be presented today (15 January) with a hand-made “friendship bench”, their prize for winning a cross-border human rights art...

Amnesty International today (15 January) condemned the executions of Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the former head of Iraq's revolutionary court as a brutal violation of the right to life and a...

Another victim in Brazil’s indigenous people’s struggle for land Kuretê Lopes, a 69-year-old indigenous woman from the Guarani-Kaiowá people, has become the latest victim of land-related violence that...

Amnesty International today has released a report revealing the scale and extent of forced evictions in Angola – and is particularly concerned at forced evictions carried out by Angolan authorities –...

Amnesty International today asked publishers, distributors and booksellers to show their support for human rights by donating books to its “Big Booksale”, the UK’s only nationwide charity booksale...

Where: US Embassy Office, Temple Court, Cathedral Road, Cardiff When: 10.30am, Thursday 11th January 2007. Letter to be handed in at 11.00am. On the day marking the fifth ‘anniversary’ (11 January) of...

Amnesty International has written to the US government expressing deep concern about reports that at least 30 civilians have been killed in recent US air attacks in southern Somalia. In a letter to US...

On the day marking the fifth ‘anniversary’ (11 January) of the first ‘war on terror’ detainees being transported to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, Amnesty International issued a...

Lleoliad: Swyddfa Llysgennad yr UD, Llys y Deml, Ffordd y Gadeirlan, Caerdydd Pryd: 10.30am, Dydd Iau, 11 Ionawr 2007. Llythyr i’w gyflwyno am 11.00am Ar ddiwrnod nodi pumed ‘pen blwydd’ (11 Ionawr)...

On the eve of the day marking the fifth ‘anniversary’ (11 January) of the first ‘war on terror’ detainees being transported to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, Amnesty International...