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Turkey: Authorities must seize the opportunity created by the PKK ceasefire

The Turkish authorities must act on today’s announcement of ceasefire by the imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdulah Ocalan, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty International...

North Korea: UN Commission of Inquiry a positive step in addressing crimes against humanity

The North Korean government must co-operate fully with a new UN investigation - the Commission of Inquiry - into grave, systematic and widespread human rights violations in the country, Amnesty...

Arms 'free-for-all' is shattering communities in Ivory Coast

Reckless and illegal arms supplies from Europe, Africa and China to the warring parties in Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) over the past decade continue to fuel grave human rights abuses and violent crime...

Zimbabwe: Prominent human rights lawyer must be released immediately

Prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa must be immediately and unconditionally released, Amnesty International said after she was denied bail in a court appearance today. Mtetwa was arrested on...

Bosco Ntaganda 'hands himself in' at US Embassy in Rwanda - Amnesty experts available for interview

Amid reports Bosco Ntaganda, leader of a notorious armed group the M23 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has handed himself over to the US Embassy in Rwanda, Amnesty International has experts...

World leaders should show some backbone and not waste historic chance to control Arms

UK has key role to play in vital talks Spokesperson available on request The time has come for world leaders to address the poorly regulated global Arms that fuels grave human rights abuses of tens of...

Indonesia: First execution in four years prompts fears for Britons on death row

The first execution in Indonesia in more than four years is a shocking and regressive step, Amnesty International said today as it urged the government not to follow through on promises to put more...

Nobel peace Laureates press Obama on Arms Treaty

US President Barack Obama must take the lead in securing a strong global Arms Treaty, a group of 18 Nobel Peace Prize winners said in an open letter delivered to their fellow laureate at the White...

Syria: Government indiscriminately bombing civilians, opposition abuses 'escalating' - new briefings

Nine government cluster bombs used on housing estate earlier this month Opposition forces are dumping bodies in a ‘hole of death’ in Damascus Within the past fortnight Syrian government forces have...