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UK: Oxfam and Amnesty call on Miliband to reject US proposal to give every State a veto over crucial arms treaty

Call on UK to show leadership to ensure an effective treaty London/New York : The US government’s plans to give every State a veto over a crucial Arms treaty must be rejected by the British government...

Belarus: Amnesty appeal for man facing execution by Monday

As the England football team prepares to face Belarus in Wednesday’s World Cup Qualifier, Amnesty International has launched an urgent appeal for Vasily Yusepchuk, a man facing execution as soon as...

Sri Lanka: Quarter of a million people trapped between military and impending monsoon

‘Detention camps’ lack basic facilities and may be a ‘collective punishment’ A quarter of a million Sri Lankans now being held in de facto detention camps are facing a humanitarian disaster as monsoon...

People trafficking: response to Met police unit closure fears

Responding to reports that the Metropolitan Police’s Human Trafficking Team may be disbanded, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “We’re extremely concerned that if the Met’s highly...

Iran: Amnesty welcomes postponement of child offender's execution

Amnesty International today (5 October) welcomed a move by the Iranian authorities to postpone the execution of an Afghan national accused of committing a murder while still a child. Abbas Hosseini...

Iran: Child offender due to be executed today - Amnesty appeal

The execution of Afghan national Abbas Hosseini in Iran today (5 October) - for a murder he is accused of committing when he was only 17 - must be stopped, Amnesty International warned today. Amnesty...

Russia: Three years after Politkovskaya killing - Threat levels rising

New letter to President Medvedev urges action, as attacks continue Human rights activists in Russia and the North Caucasus are facing increasing violence and intimidation three years after the...

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Fourteen years on Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights raped in war continue to be denied their rights

Successive governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to provide justice for thousands of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls who were raped during the 1992...

Chad: Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls fleeing Darfur conflict still subjected to rape around camps despite UN presence

Darfuri refugee Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad...

Exclusive decree gives green light to increased abuses in Honduras

Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti must rescind a decree that provides sweeping new powers of detention to the police, bans all public meetings and imposes a 45 day curfew, said Amnesty...