Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/asia.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009070311265&lang=e A Delhi high court has decided to decriminalize homosexuality. The ruling overturns a 19th century British colonial law. 2009-07-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009070311266&lang=e A delegation from Amnesty International delivered thousands of letters to the prime minister, calling on him to ratify a treaty aimed at combating enforced disappearances. 2009-07-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nepal http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA280042009&lang=e Malaysia must immediately stop caning people, a punishment widely used against immigration offenses, Amnesty International said today 2009-07-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=malaysia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA200132009&lang=e I am writing to express Amnesty International's concern that torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment are still inflicted widely throughout India 2009-06-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009062311064&lang=e The Indonesian police carry out widespread abuse with impunity against criminal suspects and poor and marginalized communities, according to a new Amnesty International report published on Wednesday. 2009-06-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=indonesia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA330042009&lang=e On 21 June 2008, marking the birthday of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani proposed to the National Assembly that all death sentences in Pakistan should be commuted to life imprisonment 2009-06-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=pakistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA200062009&lang=e Amnesty International calls on the Indian authorities to act with restraint and avoid excessive or unnecessary use of force against adivasi(indigenous) communities who are protesting against police violence 2009-06-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009061610960&lang=e Public security police arrested a prominent human rights lawyer in Viet Nam on Saturday for "colluding with domestic and foreign reactionaries to sabotage the Vietnamese state." 2009-06-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=vietnam http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009061110916&lang=e Amnesty International has accused the Sri Lankan government of trapping the country in a vicious cycle of abuse and impunity. 2009-06-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sri_lanka http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009061010915&lang=e Protesters in Jammu & Kashmir continued to press for the Indian government to seriously pursue allegations that members of the Central Reserve Police Force raped and murdered two women. 2009-06-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009060910882&lang=e Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who work for California-based Internet broadcaster Current TV, were both convicted of an unspecified “grave crime” against the nation. 2009-06-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=north_korea http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009060310821&lang=e The harassment of activists and lawyers continues and web sites like Hotmail and Twitter are shut down as censorship escalates. 2009-06-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009060210816&lang=e Hundreds of civilians were killed and injured as a result of the crackdown and a number of people are still in prison for their involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy protests. 2009-06-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009060110804&lang=e Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's continued detention in Myanmar puts the human rights spotlight on a country that has denied both economic rights and freedom of expression to its people in the past year. 2009-06-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=myanmar_burma http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009052610748&lang=e Dr Binayak Sen, who spent two years in an Indian prison as a Prisoner of Conscience, was released on Tuesday after being granted bail by the Supreme Court. 2009-05-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA370122009&lang=e As the armed conflict appears to draw to a close in Sri Lanka, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding for the more than quarter of a million civilians now held by government forces in de facto internment camps 2009-05-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sri lanka http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009052210727&lang=e The armed conflict in Sri Lanka appears to have come to an end but a humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in the country. 2009-05-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=pakistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009051810695&lang=e The war in Sri Lanka is reaching its final hours following the reported admission of defeat by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. 2009-05-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=pakistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA200042009&lang=e In April 2009, the Ministry of Environment and Forests of the Government of India granted an environmental clearance to establish the Lanjigarh bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri hills. In this open letter Amnesty International requests that the clearance be withdrawn until all necessary measures are taken to ensure that the mining project will not negatively impact the human rights of Indigenous and other communities who may be affected. 2009-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA200052009&lang=e Vedanta Aluminium Limited has applied for environmental clearance for a six-fold expansion of its alumina refinery in the state of Orissa. The Government of India has to enforce laws against pollution and to prevent any pollution of water, air or soil by Vedanta. Amnesty International is therefore calling on the authorities to refuse environmental clearance until ongoing human rights concerns in relation to the operations of the refinery are effectively addressed and for an independent and impartial human rights and environmental impact assessment of the proposal. 2009-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA170222009&lang=e Chinese authorities should immediately release recently detained survivors and parents who attempted to mourn for the children who died during the earthquake in Sichuan last year 2009-05-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA160042009&lang=e Amnesty International calls on the Myanmar government to immediately provide appropriate medical care to all political prisoners, most urgently for those with health problems 2009-05-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=myanmar http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009051310625&lang=e At least 35 people were reported to have been killed in northern Sri Lanka in an attack on a hospital in a designated “Safe Zone" on Wednesday. 2009-05-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sri_lanka http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA340012009&lang=e Amnesty International calls for immediate action to protect more than 1,000 people who have been left homeless after police officials in Papua New Guinea forcibly evicted them by burning down their homes 2009-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=papua new guinea http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009051110593&lang=e The Malaysian authorities released three human rights activists from the Hindu Rights Action Force on Saturday 9 May. 2009-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=malaysia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009051110594&lang=e The horrific condition facing civilians in north eastern Sri Lanka has been described as a “bloodbath” by the United Nations. 2009-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sri_lanka http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009050810564&lang=e Amnesty International demanded the United States immediately conduct independent, credible, and transparent investigations into air strikes in western Afghanistan that reportedly lead to the death of more than 100 civilians, including women and children. 2009-05-08T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA110082009&lang=e Amnesty International demanded the United States immediately conduct independent, credible, and transparent investigations into air strikes in western Afghanistan that reportedly lead to the death of more than 100 civilians, including women and children 2009-05-07T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA280032009&lang=e Amnesty International calls on the Malaysian authorities to release five government critics arrested in the last two days, or charge them with recognizable criminal offences 2009-05-06T00:00:00-05:00 countries=malaysia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA170212009&lang=e Chinese authorities should immediately release Fujian-based legal activist Ji Sizun who was originally detained while trying to submit an application to demonstrate during the Beijing Olympics, yet the alleged crimes he committed are seemingly unrelated to this application 2009-05-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china