Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/americas.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811288447&lang=e The execution of a Chinese scientist on Friday is the latest in a series of executions that are going against the global trend towards a moratorium on the death penalty. 2008-11-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china,iran,jamaica http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR360072008&lang=e The Haitian Women's Solidarity Movement (Solidarity Fanm Ayisyen - SOFA) currently collects information about women, girls and sexual violence 2008-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 countries=haiti http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811278411&lang=e Sexual violence against girls in Haiti is widespread and pervasive, and although already at shocking levels, is said to be on the increase. 2008-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 countries=haiti http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811258389&lang=e A draft law in Colombia aiming to grant reparation to victims of the country's 40-year conflict has been called "discriminatory" by Amnesty International. 2008-11-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR460112008&lang=e In a letter sent on 21 November to the President of the Justice and Human Rights Commission of the Peruvian Congress, Amnesty International conveyed its grave concern at recent proposals to grant amnesties, pardons, commutations of sentences and similar measures to military and police personnel suspected of being responsible for, and in some instances convicted of, human rights violations in Peru 2008-11-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=peru http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811248382&lang=e Clashes between supporters of the government party and those of the opposition, have been fuelled by accusations of fraud and vote rigging during this month's elections. 2008-11-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nicaragua http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR190162008&lang=e Amnesty International welcomes the presentation of the final report from the Rio de Janeiro State's parliamentary inquiry into the milícias (CPI das milícias) 2008-11-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=brazil http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811218352&lang=e If passed, President Evo Morales' new constitution will represent the most significant advancement of economic, social and cultural rights the country has seen in many decades. 2008-11-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=bolivia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811218347&lang=e An interview with Sister Prejean, Roman Catholic nun, formidable campaigner against the death penalty and author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book, Dead Man Walking. 2008-11-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811208288&lang=e Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch release a joint statement, after both were verbally attacked by President Uribe, for issuing reports in October criticizing his government. 2008-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR530072008&lang=e AI Index: AMR 53/007/2008 Amnesty International November 2008 2008-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=venezuela http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811188245&lang=e 'Early action' promised on closing the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay and ensuring that the USA does not resort to torture. 2008-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cuba,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR511392008&lang=e 13 November 2008 2008-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811108051&lang=e If approved, the bill would grant amnesty to members of the military and police involved in any violations of human rights. 2008-11-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=peru http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR220092008&lang=e Chile enjoys an increasingly prominent profile in the international arena, and successive governments, including your own, have stewarded many important human rights issues at inter-governmental level 2008-11-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=chile http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811078021&lang=e Amnesty International?s Secretary General Irene Khan has issued an assessment of the human rights situation in the country and a set of recommendations addressed to the Chilean government. 2008-11-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=chile http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811057962&lang=e Amnesty International is calling on US president elect Barack Obama to take concrete steps to demonstrate commitment to human rights. 2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR230412008&lang=e Colombia: Former head of the army must be investigated for human rights violations 2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811057982&lang=e Secretary General Irene Khan talks to the people of the city of Temuco as part of a mission to assess the country's human rights situation. 2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=chile http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811047965&lang=e Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan is leading a mission to Chile to assess the country?s human rights situation. 2008-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=chile http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR511282008&lang=e United States of America: Chuckie Taylor, son of former Liberian leader, convicted of torture 2008-10-31T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810317933&lang=e The son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, could face between 20 years to life imprisonment for the crimes he committed in Liberia, while serving as the head of the Anti Terrorist Unit. 2008-10-31T00:00:00-05:00 countries=liberia,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810297869&lang=e Troy Davis was granted a provisional stay of execution on Friday, just three days before he was scheduled to be put to death. 2008-10-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810287859&lang=e Authorities try to paint a positive picture despite increasing reports of forced internal displacement, attacks against social and human rights activists and killings by security forces. 2008-10-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810227803&lang=e Multinational Syngenta has given its experimental farm in Paraná state to the state government, ending a long standing violent conflict over the site. 2008-10-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=brazil http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR190122008&lang=e The decision by Syngenta seeds, the Swiss multinational, to hand over its 127 hectare experimental farm to the Paraná state government on 14 October last, marks a welcome end to a violent conflict over the site 2008-10-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=brazil http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810217793&lang=e Thousands of people around the world joined together on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty to raise their voices and demand action from governments. 2008-10-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india,mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR220062008&lang=e Since the military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973, Amnesty International as an international movement has supported the work of the relatives of victims of human rights violations committed during the military government of Augusto Pinochet 2008-10-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=chile http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810026073&lang=e Forty years ago, the Mexican army opened fire on students peacefully demonstrating in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, on 2 October 1968. 2008-10-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200809246005&lang=e Troy Davis received a stay of execution on Tuesday less than two hours before he was due to be put to death by lethal injection in Georgia. 2008-09-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa