Press releases in 2008

Northern Ireland schools can improve their performance and cut indiscipline by putting respect for the rights of pupils and teachers at the heart of the classroom. That is the message which Sweden's...

The deaths of at least 40 humanitarian or human rights workers this year alone, and the ever growing threat of attack by armed groups and militias, is putting at least three million Somalis at even...

Leaders must demonstrate commitment at Nairobi summit In advance of an emergency global summit in Nairobi, Kenya, Amnesty International today (6 Nov) urged African and international leaders to press...

New ‘checklist’ of human rights reforms issued Amnesty International has today urged US President-elect Barack Obama to make a clean break with the human rights abuses of the past. Having already...

Amnesty International is urging the Moroccan authorities to drop charges against Yassine Bellasal, an 18-year-old student, who has been sentenced to a year in prison for allegedly insulting the...

A year after the former President Pervez Musharraf unlawfully declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, the country is still suffering from the abusive policies he put in place on 3 November 2007...

Girl sentenced to death for being raped Contrary to earlier news reports, the girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13, not 23, Amnesty International can reveal. Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was...