Ahead of the meeting of heads of state at the Arab League Summit in Baghdad on 29 March, Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s interim Middle East and North Africa Director, is available for interview from London in English, Arabic, French or Spanish.
Cuban human rights activists are facing a surge in harassment in a bid to silence them during the Pope's visit, Amnesty International said.
European countries must investigate their alleged involvement in CIA renditions, Amnesty International said today, as a hearing into a new report on the EU's complicity got underway.
Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate but those employing capital punishment have decreased by more than a third compared to a decade ago, Amnesty International found in its annual review of death sentences and executions.
A travel ban on a prominent Saudi Arabian human rights defender imposed just before he planned to attend a democracy course in the United States must be lifted immediately, Amnesty International said today.
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Any UN mission to supervise an end to armed violence in Syria must include as part of its work the monitoring and reporting of human rights violations and abuses, including crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said today.
The fires that swept through the Nairobi slums of Kibera and Mathare reportedly destroying up to 700 homes, were a sharp reminder to African housing ministers meeting in the city of the need to ensure slum dwellers have access to proper services.
The Israeli authorities should immediately release a Palestinian detainee or charge her with a recognizable criminal offence and promptly try her, Amnesty International said amid fears that the woman could die in detention after 37 days on hunger strike.
Suriname's parliament must reject a proposed amnesty law that would allow the country's president to escape investigation for past gross human rights violations, Amnesty International said today.
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