Below is an index of recent features:
- PHOTO CREDIT One of the hundreds of people unlawfully killed since the beginning of the conflict following November 2010 contested presidential election. © Amnesty International
24 May 2011
Côte d’Ivoire: Both sides responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity
New report contains shocking testimonies from victims and witnesses to massacres, rapes and manhunts, serious violations of international humanitarian law.
- PHOTO CREDIT A young woman protester in Tahrir Square, Cairo. © Ivor Prickett/Panos
19 May 2011
Egypt: Victims of protest violence deserve justice
Amnesty International’s new report provides damning evidence of excessive force by security forces to try to disperse and suppress protests against former President Hosni Mubarak, showing flagrant disregard for life.
- PHOTO CREDIT A Russian gay rights activist holds a banner reading 'Homophobia - disgrace of a country' June 2010, St Petersburg. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images
18 May 2011
Moscow authorities ban gay pride event
“The Moscow City Authorities must overturn their decision to ban this year’s Moscow Gay Pride. So-called public morality concerns can never be used to justify restrictions on the freedom of expression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people."
- PHOTO CREDIT A poster of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is held up during a demonstration outside the Syrian embassy in London. LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images
16 May 2011
Al-Gaddafi arrest warrant ‘a step towards justice’
If the arrest warrants are issued as expected, Amnesty International urges Colonel al-Gaddafi to surrender himself to face trial before the International Criminal Court. All member states of the United Nations would be obliged to deny him and his co-accused safe haven.
- PHOTO CREDIT A torchlight parade in Oslo, Norway, for Chinese political activist and Nobel peace prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion”, December 2010
12 May 2011
Amnesty International Report 2011: The State of the World's Human Rights
Amnesty International at 50 says historic change on knife-edge.
- PHOTO CREDIT © Rogu Collecti / Greenpeace
11 May 2011
The Lubicon deserve answers for massive oil spill on their land
4.5 million litres of crude oil have flooded into the wetlands, the second largest oil spill in Alberta history and the largest in more than 30 years.
- PHOTO CREDIT Radio Victoria, El Salvador
10 May 2011
El Salvador urged to protect journalists after death threats
A letter delivered to Radio Victoria at early on the morning of 30 April threatened the lives of journalists Pablo Ayala and Manuel Navarte if they failed to stop broadcasting and leave the area within three days.
- PHOTO CREDIT Dozens of Syrian residents in Egypt protest in support of the opposition in their country. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images
9 May 2011
Syria death toll rises as city is placed under siege
At least 48 people have been killed in Syria by the security forces in the last four days, and more than 350 people – including 48 women and a 10-year-old child – are also said to have been arrested.
- PHOTO CREDIT Khamis, aged 72, standing in front of his home, which was shelled on 9 April 2011, Misratah, Libya. ©Amnesty International
6 May 2011
Libya: Attacks against Misratah residents point to war crimes
Gaddafi forces accused of unlawful killing of civilians with indiscriminate attacks, use of heavy artillery, rockets and cluster bombs, and sniper fire.
- PHOTO CREDIT Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, founder and Executive Director of Freedom and Roam Uganda, a lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organization.
3 May 2011
Ugandan rights activist wins top human rights award
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera has shown immense courage as an outspoken voice for human rights amidst a climate of hatred and despicable violence towards lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people in Uganda.
- PHOTO CREDIT Demonstrators in Madrid protest bloody crackdown against activists. DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images
28 April 2011
The Syrian Arab Republic: A crisis that demands action by the Human Rights Council
Amnesty International has received to date the names of more than 450 people reported to have been killed by Syrian government forces since the protests began in mid-March.
- PHOTO CREDIT Demonstrator protests executions in Iran in front of Iranian embassy in Ottawa, 11 February 2011
27 April 2011
Sharp rise in public executions as Iran executes first juvenile offenders in 2011
13 men have been hanged in public in 2011 to date, compared to 14 such executions in the whole of 2010. Eight of those executions have taken place since 16 April 2011.
- PHOTO CREDIT A Syrian woman attends a protest in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman. KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images
25 April 2011
Security Council must refer Syria to the ICC
The brutal crackdown that has left some 400 people dead since mid-March. “The Syrian government is clearly trying to shatter the will of those peacefully expressing dissent."
- PHOTO CREDIT Protest in the support of Bahraini Shiite during a rally in Karachi on April 17, 2011. ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images
21 April 2011
Bahrain: International pressure needed now to halt spiralling human rights crisis
Since 16 March the small Gulf state has witnessed an intensifying cycle of human rights violations.
- PHOTO CREDIT A man holds a remnant tail section from an MAT-120 cluster munition used in Misratah © Private
19 April 2011
Libya: International community must urgently increase aid to Misratah
The city has been besieged for weeks by forces loyal to Colonel al-Gaddafi, who have cut off power and water in parts of the cities holding out against them.