To: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Defense Minister Ehud Barak Chief of Staff Lieut. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi OC Southern Command Maj Gen Yoav Galant Atty Gen Menachem Mazuz RE: Warning of a clear and present...

Amnesty International harshly criticised the African Union’s (AU) lack of action on Zimbabwe, as detained Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko appeared in a court in Harare today after...

Burying people to their necks and near suffocation with plastic bags used in counter-insurgency which continues unabated while attention is on Bangkok Thai security forces pursuing a counter...

Amnesty International has discovered that its main website, www.amnesty.org , is once again blocked inside mainland China. Other sites recently blocked include the popular blog…

President Colom’s first year in office has produced some promising commitments to improve human rights for Guatemalans, but for those commitments to have real meaning, a lot more action needs to take...

Amnesty International today called on the UK government to suspend all military exports to Israel until there is no longer a substantial risk that such equipment will be used for serious violations of...

* Seventh ‘anniversary’ of detention centre looms * New ‘viral’ film to be released on 15 January ahead of Obama inauguration On the eve of the seventh anniversary (on Sunday 11 January) of the first...

Amnesty International said today that both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters are endangering the lives of Palestinian civilians - including by using them as human shields. Malcolm Smart...

As John Evans Atta Mills takes office after a hotly contested election in Ghana, Amnesty International today released a seven-point human rights agenda for the new President. Amnesty International’s...

Amnesty International has today (8 Jan) urged the government of Sri Lanka to publicly condemn the killing of Lasantha Wickramatunga, the editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, and other attacks on...