Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/recent.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA210052008&lang=e Between 5 and 7 May 2008, the UN Committee against Torture will meet in Geneva to discuss Indonesia's compliance with provisions set out in the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (or the Convention) 2008-05-02T00:00:00-05:00 issues=TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT,UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200805024797&lang=e As nine more detainees were freed from Guantánamo, Amnesty International today reiterated that the Guantánamo detentions are a travesty of justice. 2008-05-02T00:00:00-05:00 issues=counter-terror-justice,torture-and-ill-treatment http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080501001&lang=e Violence prevention, women's and human rights leaders today hailed the introduction late yesterday in the House of Representatives of groundbreaking legislation to address the global crisis of violence against women and girls. The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA / HR 5927) is being sponsored in the House by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA). It would apply the force of U.S. diplomacy and foreign aid over five years toward preventing abuse and exploitation, which is estimated to affect one in three women worldwide. 2008-05-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510332008&lang=e USA: Who are the Guantánamo detainees? Case Sheet 25 2008-05-01T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150202008&lang=e Amnesty International is again calling on the Israeli government to end reckless attacks by its forces on populated areas and to order an immediate, independent investigation into yesterday's strikes in Gaza which killed six Palestinians, including four children under five and their mother 2008-04-29T00:00:00-05:00 issues=CHILDREN,CIVIL UNREST,INVESTIGATION OF ABUSES,MILITARY http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR410132008&lang=e The second anniversary of the events that took place in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, is approaching without substantial advances for the victims that suffered sexual violence at the hands of the police on 3 and 4 May 2006 2008-04-29T00:00:00-05:00 issues=IMPUNITY,POLICE,SEXUAL ASSAULT,TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR410082008&lang=e Amnesty International welcomes the decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court on 14 April to order the judicial investigation into allegations of torture made by Alberto Videma Morillas to be re-opened, on the grounds that the initial investigation was not effective 2008-04-28T00:00:00-05:00 issues=INVESTIGATION OF ABUSES,TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080428001&lang=e BlogCatalog.com, the fastest-growing social network for bloggers on the Internet, is partnering with Amnesty International, a worldwide movement that campaigns for internationally recognized human rights, to expand a global social awareness campaign for human rights by launching a major initiative on May 15. 2008-04-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200804284729&lang=e (New Delhi): The first major study into India’s legal judgements on death penalty cases has revealed that the system is riddled with fatal flaws and that the only remedy is to abolish the death penalty completely, said the study authors in New Delhi today. 2008-04-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAFR540152008&lang=e Ahmad Harun and Ali Kushayb are wanted for trial at the ICC to establish their guilt or innocence concerning multiple counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. This document urges the United Nations Security Council to: condemn Sudan’s refusal to arrest and surrender Ahmad Harun and Ali Kushayb to the ICC; call on Sudan to enforce all ICC arrest warrants immediately; and take other effective measures to ensure that the two men are arrested and surrendered to the ICC. 2008-04-27T00:00:00-05:00 issues=ARMED CONFLICT,CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY,ICC,NON-GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES,UN SECURITY COUNCIL,WAR CRIMES http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080425001&lang=e Amnesty International has received information that at about 10 am (local time), five police officers from the Zimbabwe Republic Police?s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) raided the offices of the Zimbabwe Elections Support Network (ZESN) in Harare. ZESN is the coalition of 38 organizations that were involved in observing the March 29 elections. 2008-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=zimbabwe http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAFR540162008&lang=e AI Index: AFR 54/016/2008 (Public) 2008-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 issues=ICC http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAFR540172008&lang=e AI Index: AFR 54/017/2008 (Public) 2008-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 issues=ICC http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE290082008&lang=e Allegations of torture of Sahrawi human rights defender must be investigated 2008-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 issues=DEPORTATION,HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS,NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080425002&lang=e Amnesty International has received secretly filmed grisly footage of a man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. The organization strongly condemns the execution and calls for the Saudi Arabian government to adhere to the U.N. moratorium on executions around the world. 2008-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=saudi_arabia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080425003&lang=e Amnesty International refutes statements made by the Ethiopian government on its report about a raid on the Al Hidya Mosque in Mogadishu on 19 April 2008. In the attack, Ethiopian forces killed at least 21 people, including 11 unarmed civilians inside the mosque, and detained at least 40 children and youths, aged 9 to 18. At least 10 others were killed by Ethiopian forces in the vicinity of the mosque. 2008-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=ethiopia,somalia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200804254719&lang=e In a report published today, Amnesty International revealed the extent of police violence in Mozambique, saying that police are killing and torturing people with near total impunity. 2008-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mozambique http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080423001&lang=e The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must stop stonewalling congressional oversight committees and release vital documents related to the program of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, three prominent human rights groups said today. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law (NYU IHRC) reiterated their call for information, following the CIA?s filing of a summary judgment motion this week to end a lawsuit and avoid turning over more than 7000 documents related to its secret ?ghost? detention and extraordinary rendition program. This motion is in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in federal court last June by these groups. The organizations will file their response brief next month. 2008-04-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080423002&lang=e Amnesty International said today that the shipments of small arms, light weapons and ammunition ordered from China by the Zimbabwe government must be stopped because of the real risk that the weapons will increase state-sponsored violence and human rights abuses by soldiers and police. 2008-04-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china,zimbabwe http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080423003&lang=e Amnesty International today called on the Ethiopian military to release some 41 children held after a raid on Mogadishu?s Al Hidya mosque last Saturday, which left 21 people dead. 2008-04-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=ethiopia,mali,somalia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE160012008&lang=e Amnesty International has written to the Jordanian authorities expressing its concern over what appear to be disproportionately lenient sentences received in March by two men convicted of killing close female relatives 2008-04-23T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200804234685&lang=e All shipments of small arms, light weapons and ammunition ordered from China by the Zimbabwe Government must be halted as there is a real risk that it may lead to increased human rights violations in Zimbabwe, said Amnesty International. 2008-04-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=zimbabwe http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200804224662&lang=e Amnesty International today called on the UN and governments in Central Africa to take immediate action to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in recent weeks. 2008-04-22T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080422001&lang=e Amnesty International today called on the United Nations and governments in Central Africa to take immediate action to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in recent weeks. 2008-04-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=republic_of_congo,sudan,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200804214653&lang=e Amnesty International today condemned threats by the Nepali Home Ministry to use “force, including gunfire… to prevent anti-China protests” when the Olympic torch relay arrives on Mount Everest in early May. 2008-04-21T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA390042008&lang=e Thailand: The new Thai government must stand up for human rights of refugees 2008-04-18T00:00:00-05:00 issues=FEAR OF REFOULEMENT,REFUGEES http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAFR460092008&lang=e END STATE-SPONSORED VIOLENCE IN ZIMBABWE 2008-04-18T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200804184629&lang=e As the new Kenyan coalition government prepares to take office, Amnesty International today called on the new government to ensure that those responsible for the human rights abuses committed during the post-elections violence are brought to justice. 2008-04-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=kenya http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080417001&lang=e Amnesty International reveals the devastating toll of violence against women in Brazil's lawless "favelas," or shanty-towns, in a new report released today that highlights abuse of women both by drug gangs and by police. 2008-04-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=brazil http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080417002&lang=e Eight hundred Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) members and activists from across the country will tackle some of the most pressing human rights issues facing the world today at the organization's 2008 Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Washington, D.C., from April 25-28. The conference, Ignite Hope. Advocate Change, kicks off on Friday night in Arlington, VA, and concludes Monday on Capitol Hill with a lobby day to call on Congress to increase efforts to stop violence against women globally. 2008-04-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa