World news about “Amnesty International” published by euronews.
Amnesty International calls for more protection for asylum seekers A Somalian man speaks about his struggle to flee the country’s civil war two decades ago. “I was under stress, under anxiety and all the time I dream a lot… 24/04/2013
More killing: Amnesty tracks executions A study by Amnesty International has found that 682 people were executed last year. The rights group said that was two more than the number of death… 10/04/2013
Amnesty launches new Roma campaign Amnesty International launched a new campaign on Tuesday to end discrimination of Roma people in Europe. The human rights organisation wants the European… 09/04/2013
Moscow Amnesty International headquarters raided Officials from the prosecutors office and tax police have raided the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International. It is one of a number of raids carried… 25/03/2013
Amnesty cites UN hypocrisy, EU scapegoating euronews London correspondent Ali Sheikholeslami spoke to Amnesty International’s secretary-general Salil Shetty about groundshifts taking place in Muslim… 24/05/2012
Inside Amnesty International on I-talk Amnesty International has been around for over 50 years now. Who belongs to this organisation? How is it funded? And more importantly, are we listening… 12/04/2012
Amnesty Int’l slams the “broken promises” of Egypt’s revolutionThe claims of many protesters in Cairo that the promises made after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak have not been honoured have been backed by a… 22/11/2011
Egypt: bloody unrest flares again Only days before Egypt is due to hold elections, the country looks to have descended into its biggest crisis since February. While back then the fall of… 21/11/2011
Amnesty says civilians bearing brunt of Aleppo battleAn investigation by Amnesty International has found that civilians are suffering “horrific levels of violence” in the battle for Aleppo. The NGO said Syrian… 24/08/2012
Amnesty: Syrian civilians endure ‘horrific’ regime violenceAmnesty International has accused Syrian government forces of endangering civilians by increasingly attacking residential areas indiscriminately. After a… 23/08/2012
Amnesty call for UN arms trade treatyAmnesty International claims there are more rules governing the selling of bananas than guns. Activists outside the UN in New York have called on the… 28/06/2012
Amnesty accuses Syria of crimes against humanityThe violence in Syria continues unabated on a day when the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced as many a 14,000 people have lost their… 14/06/2012
Amnesty: UN Security Council ‘unfit for purpose’Human rights watchdog Amnesty International, in its annual State of the World Human Rights report,lambasted the UN Security Council for being “tired, out of… 24/05/2012
Connecticut Senate votes to end death penaltyThe state of Connecticut is a step closer to abolishing the death penalty, after its Senate voted 20-16 in favour of getting rid of capital punishment. The… 05/04/2012
Fewer countries execute more people: AmnestyIran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia led a surge in the use of the death penalty last year, according to Amnesty International. More than three-quarters of the 360… 27/03/2012
Amnesty warns of ‘grave’ crisis in HomsIn Syria the shelling of civilian areas in neighbourhoods in the city of Homs is a growing problem say activists. Some of the wounded its claimed have bled… 11/02/2012
N Korea frees prisoners to commemorate dead leadersAn amnesty for political prisoners in North Korea has been announced – though the exact number of how many people will be freed remains unclear. The… 10/01/2012
Syria accused of targeting activists abroadOpposition activists living outside Syria are accusing the country’s embassies of systematically monitoring their activities and harassing them as well as… 11/10/2011
Report accuses both sides in Libya of war crimesBoth sides in the Libya conflict have committed war crimes and must be held to account according to a report by Amnesty International. It details… 13/09/2011
Amnesty says Ivorian refugees fear return after abusesMore than half a million people remain displaced by Ivory Coast’s violent post-election conflict, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group… 28/07/2011
Amnesty wants Syrian crimes against humanity probeNew pictures have emerged from Syria purporting to show the extent of a government crackdown in Hama that activists say has killed at least 22… 06/07/2011
Iran: ‘‘They do not like talking to us,’‘ Amnesty saysIt is Amnesty International’s 50th anniversary and the organisation has just published its annual report, reflecting the state of human rights around the… 13/05/2011
