Reacting to the charges brought against Guant?namo detainee Omar Khadr, Amnesty International said:
?The treatment of Omar Khadr over the past five years exemplifies the USA?s disregard for international law in the ?war on terror?. Unless the US authorities bring him to trial in a civilian court, taking full account of his age at the time of any alleged offences, he should be returned to Canada.?
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(Washington, D.C.) ? Native American and Alaska Native women in the United States suffer disproportionately high levels of rape and sexual violence, yet the federal government has created substantial barriers to accessing justice, Amnesty International (AI) asserted in a 113-page report released today. Justice Department figures indicate that American Indian and Alaska Native women are 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than women in the United States in general; more than one in three Native women will be raped in their lifetimes.
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MANILA — ADB approved a total $7.4 billion in loans in 2006, reflecting a 28% increase over the previous year?s level, according to the ADB Annual Report 2006, released ahead of the 40th Annual Meeting to be held 4?7 May in Kyoto, Japan.
Amnesty International condemns the harsh sentence handed down today on human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni, following an unfair trial that appeared to be politically driven and during which he was not given full access to his lawyers.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today said President Hugo Chavez?s decision to close a television station that has been critical of his government and his recent remarks calling into question the future of free trade unionism signal a worrying development for media pluralism and union rights in Venezuela.
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