Amnesty International - International Secretariat

29.05.2008 International leaders including China, Russia, and the United States must apologize for "decades" of injustices and lead a global, unified effort to revitalize human rights, says Amnesty International's annual report

14.05.2008 Asian governments -- seen to have greater leverage with Myanmar authorities -- are being asked to increase the pressure on the military junta to effectively address the humanitarian crisis caused by Cyclone Nargis.

23.04.2008 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in recent weeks.

15.04.2008 Saudi Arabia had the highest number of executions per capita, followed by Iran and Libya, according to a new Amnesty survey that says 88 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US.

02.04.2008 The Jamaican authorities are wilfully neglecting the poorest communities by failing to tackle inner-city violence, says a new Amnesty report that spotlights abusive policing methods that lead to hundreds of fatal shootings and extrajudicial executions.