Amnesty International has launched a new website for people to have their say about the human rights situation in China in the countdown to the Beijing Olympics. When bidding for the Games, the Chinese authorities made commitments that hosting the Games would help improve human rights.
Amnesty International has asked people to let the know whether [...]

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Reacting to today’s release of a video publicly showing Canadian citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International called for Khadr to be repatriated to Canada immediately.
The video is the first of a detainee being questioned in Guantanamo and shows Khadr being interrogated by Canadian officials in 2003 [...]

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Charges Against al-Bashir a Major Step to Ending Impunity
The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s request for an arrest warrant against Sudan’s president is a significant step towards ending impunity for the horrific crimes in Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 14, 2008, the court’s prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, asked Pre-Trial Chamber I to [...]

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Amnesty International activists from around 30 countries gathering in Latvia to join Riga Pride 2008 in solidarity with the Mozaika alliance of LGBT people and other LGBT people in Riga, in Latvia and in the Baltic states.
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US efforts to undermine a new treaty banning cluster munitions met with significant defeat yesterday at the final negotiations in Dublin, Human Rights Watch said.

Preliminary agreement on a draft treaty text on the afternoon of May 28 indicated that virtually all of the 110 countries gathered in Dublin favour a more comprehensive ban of cluster [...]

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Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to apologize for six decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements.

“The human rights flashpoints in Darfur, Zimbabwe, Gaza, Iraq and Myanmar demand immediate action,” said Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, launching AI Report 2008: State of the World’s Human Rights.
“Injustice, inequality and [...]

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The Al Jazeera cameraman, Sami al-Hajj describes how he was treated during the seven years he was detained at the US detention centre at Guantánamo in Cuba.

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The humanitarian crisis in Darfur is one of the largest in the world. Since the start of 2003 two million people have fled their homes and 200,000 have died.
Global Day for Darfur was organised by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Save Darfur Coalition.
The UK government has proposed London hosts Darfur peace talks and [...]

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Yesterday was the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
5 years before that Martin Luther King delivered his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 28, 1963)

Yesterday thousands of people joined together in Memphis, Tennessee, USA to honour King for his dedication to [...]

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