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Guantanamo: New call on European governments to take detainees

Five leading human rights groups this morning called on European governments to provide humanitarian protection to Guantánamo detainees who will not be charged with any crime but cannot be returned to...

Swede Offers Rights Solution To Indiscipline in Schools

Northern Ireland schools can improve their performance and cut indiscipline by putting respect for the rights of pupils and teachers at the heart of the classroom. That is the message which Sweden's...

Congo(DRC): Decisive action needed to stop catastrophe, says Amnesty International

Leaders must demonstrate commitment at Nairobi summit In advance of an emergency global summit in Nairobi, Kenya, Amnesty International today (6 Nov) urged African and international leaders to press...

Somalia: Increased wave of attacks and violence put three million Somalis at risk of malnutrition and disease

The deaths of at least 40 humanitarian or human rights workers this year alone, and the ever growing threat of attack by armed groups and militias, is putting at least three million Somalis at even...

President-Elect Obama should make a clean break with human rights abuses of past

New ‘checklist’ of human rights reforms issued Amnesty International has today urged US President-elect Barack Obama to make a clean break with the human rights abuses of the past. Having already...

Morocco: Call to drop charges against 18-year-old facing jail for 'Barcelona' football graffiti that 'insulted' king

Amnesty International is urging the Moroccan authorities to drop charges against Yassine Bellasal, an 18-year-old student, who has been sentenced to a year in prison for allegedly insulting the...

Pakistan: One year after emergency, legacy of abuse lingers

A year after the former President Pervez Musharraf unlawfully declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, the country is still suffering from the abusive policies he put in place on 3 November 2007...

Somalia: Girl stoned was a child of 13

Girl sentenced to death for being raped Contrary to earlier news reports, the girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13, not 23, Amnesty International can reveal. Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was...

Binyam Mohamed: Criminal investigation welcome but 'long overdue'

Amnesty International has described a move by the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ask the Attorney General to investigate possible "criminal wrongdoing" by UK and US intelligence agencies in the case...

Landslide UN vote in favour of Arms treaty

Control Arms campaign demands urgent move to end the carnage US and Zimbabwe only countries to vote against Today 147 states at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to move forward with work on an...