Press releases in 2008

Please see below a copy of Amnesty oral statement to be read out at the UN Human Rights Council on the afternoon of 25 March 2008. Mr. President, Amnesty International is deeply concerned at human...

Amnesty International today revealed the extent of the impact of HIV and AIDS on poor rural Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in South Africa with a major new report about the...

"The Chinese authorities should allow an independent UN investigation into the events of the last week in Tibet, particularly in the light of the sealing off of the region in recent days and the long...

Huge death toll and refugee flows, death squads, torture, mass imprisonment without charge and rising violence against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights mark last five years...

Archie Panjabi, star of East is East and Bend It Like Beckham, fronts Amnesty campaign The star of East is East and Bend It Like Beckham, Archie Panjabi, is to front Amnesty International’s campaign...

In exclusive interviews Yemeni man tells Amnesty of beatings, aggressive dogs, psychological torture and transfer to secret high-tech ‘black site’ prison Fresh call to reveal whereabouts of secret...

Amnesty demands restoration of constitution and human rights protections As Pakistan prepares to swear-in a new parliament, Amnesty International today called on the country’s new leaders to repair...

Subjected to violence but unable to escape – this is the reality facing over one hundred Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights in Northern Ireland, according...

UK Government ‘is betraying Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in the UK’ Subjected to violence but unable to escape – this is the reality facing hundreds of Women's rights's...

As the British Olympic Association (BOA) prepares to host its AGM, the 2008 National Olympic Assembly, tomorrow (12 March), Amnesty International called on the BOA not to stand silent as China cracks...