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Amnesty launches new bilingual pack for young people tackling the death penalty

Amnesty International has launched new free, bilingual materials designed to help young people in Wales talk about the impact of the death penalty. At the event at Cathays High School, young people...

AMNEST YN LANSIO PECYN DWYIEITHOG NEWYDD AR GYFER HELPU POBL IFANC I DRAFOD Y GOSB EITHAF

Heddiw (dydd Llun), lansiodd Amnest Rhyngwladol ddeunydd dwyieithog newydd rhad ac am ddim i helpu pobl ifanc Cymru drafod effaith y gosb eithaf. Yn ystod y digwyddiad yn Ysgol Uwchradd Cathays, roedd...

World Habitat Day: One billion slum dwellers cannot be ignored

Governments cannot celebrate the UN World Habitat Day on 4 October while ignoring one billion people living in slums, said Amnesty International. Amnesty International’s Senior Director of...

Burma: Leaders of Asia and Europe asked to support call to release all Burma's political prisoners

Tutu and thousands of others submit solidaity petition to Nick Clegg ahead of ASEM meeting Amnesty International today delivered a photographic petition to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg ahead of...

Thailand: Repeal or reform emergency legislation immediately

Thailand must cease invoking the Emergency Decree and the Internal Security Act, as they flout international human rights law and standards, Amnesty International said today. Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty...

Saudi Arabia: Letter to King Abdullah urges commutation of 'sorcery' death sentence

Amnesty International has written to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urging him to commute death sentences imposed on two men convicted of “sorcery”. Lebanese national ‘Ali Hussain Sibat and ‘Abdul...

DRC (Congo): Action needed to investigate a decade of crimes

The publication of the UN mapping report documenting gross human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a significant first step, but concrete action is needed to ensure that...

Amnesty dismayed at European Commission response to France's treatment of Roma

Amnesty International has expressed its extreme disappointment at the limited scope of measures adopted yesterday by the European Commission to address human rights violations against Roma people in...

Zimbabwe: 20,000 at risk of forced eviction

Amnesty International has urged thousands of activists to appeal to the Zimbabwean authorities to stop the pending evictions of up to 20,000 people from an informal settlement on the outskirts of...

Thailand: Amnesty calls for the immediate release of female online news editor

Amnesty International today called for the immediate release of an online news editor in Thailand – detained for a comment on her site that was neither written or posted by herself. Chiranuch...