Since the International Day of the Disappeared was started in 1983, the government practice of kidnapping, abducting or detaining people and
holding them in secret has continued and spread as more countries
accept and justify this crime.
The trial of Radovan Karadzic resumes today in The Hague. But are a small number of high profile trials enough to heal
the wounds caused by the horrific violations of human rights committed
by all sides to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Nidzara Ahmetasevic talks about how she was wounded in the leg, about the Karadzic trial and about her hopes and dreams for the future of her country.
Organization also calls on the Argentinean authorities to investigate the 2006 disappearance of Jorge Julio López.
After eight alleged members of the Justice and Equality Movement were sentenced to death by Sudan's Anti-Terrorism Special Courts, the government prepares to try another 109.
Nearly 80 organisations, including a number of Amnesty International's
African sections, have come together to show solidarity with the people
of Zimbabwe.
Julia Ozorio Gamecho is the first woman to tell the Truth and Justice Commission about how she was sexually abused by the military during General Alfredo Stroessner's
regime.
Matt Pollard, Amnesty International’s latest trial observer atthe recent military commission hearings at Guantánamo Bay, gives a sense of what it was like there.
As the Olympic Games begin, Amnesty International's report shows that the Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country’s human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics.
New government of Pakistan must reveal the truth about enforced disappearances
