Press releases in 2011

Amnesty International today urged the Mexican authorities to conduct a full, independent and effective investigation into the deaths of 59 people, whose bodies were found in mass graves yesterday on a...

Amnesty International is calling on the Libyan authorities to immediately reveal the whereabouts of four men - including two British nationals - who are being held in secret after being arrested in...

Revised Draft Does Not Address Rights Concerns Cambodia’s draft law regulating associations and non governmental organisations (NGOs) should be abandoned because it will undermine rather than promote...

The Azerbaijani authorities must halt a campaign of intimidation against opposition leaders that has seen activists detained and allegedly beaten by police following anti-government protests, Amnesty...

Hundreds of bodies found in a mass grave in Zimbabwe may never be identified unless professional forensic experts carry out the exhumations, Amnesty International warned today. Bodies recently...

Christina Cargill in running for Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year A Lisburn pupil was shortlisted today for Amnesty International’s Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year award. Christina...

Italy’s human rights record has been dealt another blow, Amnesty International said today, after the European Court of Human Rights ruled it had violated the ban on torture and other cruel, inhuman or...

Recent Israeli government calls for the UN to retract the 2009 report of its Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict are a cynical attempt to avoid accountability for war crimes and deny both...

Natasha Kelly in running for Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year A Belfast pupil was shortlisted today for Amnesty International’s Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year award. Natasha Kelly, 11...

The international community must play a more active role if Yemenis are to get accountability for the bloody killings of recent weeks, Amnesty International said today (5 April) as it released a new...