The Maldives authorities must commute the death sentences and stop the potential execution of two teenagers who yesterday received capital punishment for a murder allegedly committed when they were under 18, Amnesty International said. The two juveniles were convicted by the Juvenile Court in the capital Male’ over a fatal gang stabbing incident in February. [...]
About Amnesty International
Auf Grundlage der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte wendet sich Amnesty gegen schwerwiegende Menschenrechtsverletzungen. Amnesty ist Teil einer Bewegung, in der Menschen zusammenkommen, um sich gemeinsam gegen Menschenrechtsverletzungen einzusetzen - und zwar nicht abstrakt, sondern ganz konkret und für Tausende, die in Gefahr sind. Amnesty International eine von Regierungen, politischen Parteien, Ideologien, Wirtschaftsinteressen und Religionen unabhängige Mitgliederorganisation.
Roma Activists Are Standing Up Against Discrimination
Millions of Roma across Europe experience prejudice, exclusion, forced evictions, segregation in schools, lack of access to essential services and hatred that can lead to violence. How do they deal with discrimination on a daily basis and still keep going? What motivates them to hope that the future is going to be better? Here are [...]
Keep Weapons Out of the Hands of Human Rights Abusers
On March 18 – 28, 2013 world leaders will convene to negotiate the first ever treaty that will help prevent keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers, such as armed groups and government forces that put children into combat.
Amnesty Filmpreis 2013 für “The Rocket”
“The Rocket” von Kim Mordaunt ist der Gewinner des diesjährigen Amnesty-Filmpreises auf der Berlinale – ein ungemein intelligenter Spielfilm über die Hinterlassenschaften von Kriegen. “The Rocket” spielt in Laos, jenem Land, in dessen Erde die meisten Bomben weltweit stecken. Sie stammen noch aus der Zeit des Indochina-Kriegs – zwei Millionen Tonnen Sprengstoff warfen US-Piloten in [...]
Egypt: Uprising commemoration unleashes death and destruction
Eyewitness accounts collected by Amnesty International in Egypt point to the unnecessary use of lethal force by security forces during a weekend of clashes with demonstrators. After three days of violence that claimed at least 45 lives and led to more than 1,000 injured, Amnesty International called for end to excessive force by security forces, [...]
Uigurischer Schriftsteller im Gefängnis gestorben
Der gefeierte uigurische Schriftsteller Nurmemet Yasin starb Berichten zufolge in einem chinesischen Gefängnis. Sein Tod ist ein schwerer Rückschlag für die ohnehin schon eingeschränkte Meinungsfreiheit in China, und lässt erkennen, wie schlecht die Haftbedingungen in chinesischen Gefängnissen sind, so Amnesty International. “Durch das Einsperren meines Körpers hoffen sie, meine Seele zu versklaven…” (Auszug aus Nurmemet [...]
Trucks, lack of water and little food: Indigenous community struggles to survive by the side of a road in Paraguay
Gladys Benitez can hardly remember what her old home looked like, even though she lives just a few yards from it. Because for more than two decades, Gladys, along with her three children and another more than 90 families from the indigenous community of Sawhoyamaxa, from the ethnic group Exnet, has been forced to live [...]
Americas: Human rights defenders increasingly targeted and attacked
Human rights defenders across the Americas are facing escalating levels of intimidation, harassment and attacks at the hands of state security forces, paramilitary groups and organized crime, Amnesty International says in a new report. The report Transforming pain into hope: Human rights defenders in the Americas, is based on around 300 cases of intimidation, harassment, [...]
Palestine UN status upgrade should open door to justice
Palestine’s historic recognition as a non-member observer state of the United Nations brings with it obligations under international law, Amnesty International said today. The vote at the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday was decided by 138 votes in favour, 41 abstentions, and 9 against. Palestine is in a position to ratify the [...]
Mozambique: Thousands unlawfully held in substandard prisons
Thousands of people are being held in Mozambique’s prisons despite not having been found guilty of a crime, Amnesty International said in a report released yesterday, which exposes how many inmates are arrested on spurious grounds and held for years without access to a lawyer. The report Locking up my rights: Arbitrary arrest, detention and [...]
Nigeria: Security forces out of control in fight against terror of Boko Haram
The brutal actions of Nigeria’s security forces in response to Boko Haram’s campaign of terror are making an already desperate situation even worse, Amnesty International said in a report released on November 1st. The report, Nigeria: Trapped in the cycle of violence, documents the atrocities carried out by Boko Haram as well as the serious [...]
USA: ‘Targeted killing’ policies violate the right to life
A series of speeches over the past two years by officials from the administration of President Barack Obama, and an article published in the New York Times on 29 May 2012, have revealed some details of the purported legal rationale for current policies and practices of the United States of America (USA) in the deliberate [...]
