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Правительство США обязано удвоить усилия по принятию решения о дальнейшей судьбе узников, до сих пор удерживаемых на военной базе в Гуантанамо-Бэй (Куба). Amnesty International выступила с этим заявлением после того, как президент Барак ...

Быть может на вопросцы читателей «Росбалта» готов значительно дать ответ директор русского ресурсного центра Amnesty International («Международная Амнистия») Сергей Никитин . «РФ ? очень налицо сладкая держава» 18.11.2009 На вопросцы ...

Согласно данным организации Amnesty International (Международная Амнистия), в 2008 году наибольшее количество смертных казней имело место в Китае (1 718). В 2008 году в Иране число казнённых составило, как минимум, 346, в Саудовской ...

В США, например, в 2008 году по данным Amnesty International было приведено 37 смертных приговоров. В Китае эта цифра значительно больше, там 1718 человек были казнены. Всего в 25 странах в 2008 году были казнены 2 390 человек. ...

До тех пор, пока Россия остается регионом, свободным от высшей меры наказания, неизбежный риск ошибочного применения смертной казни исключается, – заявила Никола Дакворт, директор региональной программы Amnesty International по Европе и ...

Amnesty International неоднократно выражала озабоченность в связи с ужесточением ограничений на свободу выражения мнений в Азербайджане и применение статей Уголовного кодекса в целях подавления мирного инакомыслия, в частности, ...

Amnesty International призывает переизбранного на второй срок президента Афганистана Хамида Карзая сделать соблюдение прав человека и принципа верховенства закона приоритетными задачами, что поможет усилить стабильность и безопасность в ...

Международная правозащитная организация Amnesty International начала кампанию в поддержку осужденных в Азербайджане к тюремному заключению по обвинению в хулиганстве блогеров Аднана Гаджизаде и Эмина Милли. ...

By Christine Heller, a Sri Lanka Coordinator for Amnesty International in Switzerland. I’ve just come back from our Sri Lanka action in Berne. The sun was out and there were about 40 activists handing out solidarity buttons reading “unlock the camps” in Tamil, as well as postcards featuring the poem “Broken Pottu” by Mahesh Munasinghe, inspired [...]

By Yolanda Foster, Amnesty International’s researcher on Sri Lanka. Six months ago the Government of Sri Lanka announced that war in Sri Lanka was finally over. Victory seemed sweet to ordinary Sri Lankans in the south. The deliberate killing of civilians by Tamil Tiger suicide bombers polarized communities and bred real fear that conflict could leak [...]

By Tim Molyneux, a volunteer working in Amnesty International’s Sri Lanka team. On Monday night I took part in a big event to raise awareness about the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people in Sri Lanka currently confined in mass detention camps. This marked the first day of an international week of action in support of [...]

By Fernanda Doz Costa, Researcher on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Americas Last Friday, I participated in a very interesting hearing about maternal mortality, where four experts from the Americas gave testimony before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights  in Washington DC. It was great working in partnership with them; each brought different experience and expertise. Mario [...]

Amnesty International is launching a bus tour, together with partner organisations the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and the Bhopal Medical Appeal, which will travel throughout Europe for eight weeks starting on 17 October until 2 December – the day of the 25th anniversary. The tour will stop in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, [...]

By Colby Goodman, Amnesty International’s Control Arms Campaign October 7, 2009 – On a day the New York Times exposed more details about Guinean security forces recent use of weapons against thousands of peaceful protestors, Amnesty International participated in what turned out to be an electrified briefing at the United Nations (UN) about preventing the use [...]

Today was the final day of the caravan. We drove from Bo to Waterloo, a town on the outskirts of Freetown. After a quick radio interview for the musicians, we assembled in the field and prepared for the event. The hot sun was beaming down on the caravan stage and the crowd was scattered on the [...]

This morning, we went to the Kenema government hospital and showed the Amnesty International film in the maternity ward. During the discussion after the film, people shared a number of their experiences. One of the women, Jenny N.C. Valli, spoke of the poor road networks and challenge to gain access to the hospital. Some of the [...]

We split up today and did a number of different things in Bo. This morning, I went to a local radio station with Solomon, the section campaigner and the musicians. The musicians were interviewed about their involvement in Amnesty International’s campaign on maternal mortality and why they think maternal mortality is an important issue to focus [...]

We arrived in Kenema on Tuesday evening after an eight-hour drive from Kambia. Kenema is one of the main diamond trading posts in Sierra Leone and was one of the areas most affected during the war. Many people in the surrounding areas still live in former camps for Liberian refugees who fled during the war. I [...]