AI ACTION: LIBERIA MUST TACKLE ITS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES TODAY
The Liberian government have failed to tackle the problem of impunity within their country for rape that happened during the conflict and has continued to this day. Article:http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=413
AI ACTIONS: AMNESTY CALLS ON SIERRA LEONE TO RECOGNISE PASSED ABUSE
Between 1991 and 2002, all parties to the conflict in Sierra Leone perpetrated rape, sexual slavery and other violent crimes. The government has failed to provide reparations to the women effected. Take action Article:http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=414
AI REPORT INTO NIGERIA’S “APPALLING” JUDICIAL AND PENAL SYSTEM
Amnesty International has released a report into the state of Nigeria’s prison system and it shows how the criminal justice system is failing the people of that country. The report describes the criminal justice system as a ‘conveyor belt of injustice, from beginning to end’, it reveals how: 65 per Continue Reading
MILLIBAND URGED TO ASK CHINESE GOVERNMENT FOR PEACEFUL PROTEST
As UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband heads to China this week, Amnesty International has urged him to insist that peaceful protests during the Beijing Olympics are not met with state violence.
AI NEWS: AMNESTY ASKS BERBIA TO CODEMN ATTACKS
Amnesty International is calling on the Serbian authorities and specifically Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica and President Boris Tadic to urgently condemn attacks on human rights activists and on ethnic minorities in the country.
