From: Amnesty International on Fri, Feb 12 2010 4:53 AM

Amnesty International’s interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone on the controversy surrounding the organization in light of statements made by a staff member.

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Feb 11 2010 4:51 AM

Indian authorities have given local communities scant information about the potential impact of a refinery expansion and mining project proposed by subsidiaries of Vedanta Resources in Orissa.

From: Amnesty International on Tue, Feb 09 2010 4:38 AM

Indian authorities have given local communities scant or misleadinginformation about the potential impact of a proposed alumina refineryexpansion and mining project to be operated by subsidiaries of UK-basedcompany Vedanta Resources in Orissa.

From: Amnesty International on Fri, Feb 05 2010 4:28 AM

The country’s revised penal code stipulates prison sentences for girls and women who seek an abortionand for health professionals who provide health services associatedwith abortion.

From: Amnesty International on Wed, Feb 03 2010 4:22 AM

Police in Papua New Guinea burnt down homes and threatened people with guns whileillegally evicting them from land next to one of the country’s biggest gold mines.

From: Amnesty International on Wed, Jan 27 2010 3:08 AM

Due to a lack of adequate alternative housing, Roma families have been living for years next to waste dumps or sewage treatment plants.

From: Amnesty International on Fri, Jan 22 2010 2:13 AM

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:55 AM

A call was made for a global moratorium on executions by the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee.

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:54 AM

The global campaign against the death penalty secures a landmark victory as the UN endorses the call for a worldwide moratorium on executions.

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:52 AM

Stories of the death penalty around the world - an animated slideshow narrated by Colin Firth

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:51 AM

Three men who escaped the death penalty joined forces in New York to campaign for a global abolition of this irreversible punishment. 

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:48 AM

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:39 AM

Amnesty International has challenged world leaders to apologize forsix decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliverconcrete improvements.

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:38 AM

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

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:34 AM

On the 25th International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International and Amina Janjua, the founder of Defence of Human Rights, called upon the Pakistan governm

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:33 AM

Amnesty International called on the Pakistan government to reveal thefate and whereabouts of hundreds of disappeared people, amidinternational protests to mark the

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:31 AM

Brother and sister Jimmy and Myriam Bell, who were schoolchildren inSantiago, Chile, during the 1973 coup, discuss their experiences under thePinochet regime.

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:28 AM

Michael Nyangi runs a microfinance project called Lomoro in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Nairobi, Kenya.

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:27 AM

This year’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is a callto everyone, from policy makers to the public, to recognise the rightsand dignity of people l

From: Amnesty International on Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:26 AM

Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan led a mission toChile in at the beginning of November to assess the country’s humanrights situation.