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London 2012 organisers must admit Dow mistake after ethics chief quits

27 January 2012, 12:04PM Be the first to comment

London 2012 Olympic organisers must admit their mistake in awarding a lucrative contract to the Dow Chemical Company, Amnesty International has said after the Games' ethics commissioner quit over human rights concerns about the company.

Bahrain’s use of tear gas against protesters increasingly deadly

27 January 2012, 11:11AM Be the first to comment

Bahrain must investigate more than a dozen deaths that followed the misuse of tear gas by security forces, Amnesty International has said after another person was seriously injured by a tear gas canister in Manama this week.

Libya: Deaths of detainees amid widespread torture

27 January 2012, 11:08AM Be the first to comment

Several detainees have died after being subjected to torture in Libya in recent weeks and months amid widespread torture and ill-treatment of suspected pro-al-Gaddafi fighters and loyalists, Amnesty International has said.

Reform activists in Saudi Arabia must receive fair appeal hearings

26 January 2012, 08:50AM Be the first to comment

Sixteen men who were given lengthy prison sentences after they tried to set up a human rights organisation in Saudi Arabia should all receive fair appeal hearings.

Amnesty International supports 40 years of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

25 January 2012, 01:51PM Be the first to comment

Forty years of the struggle for Aboriginal rights will be recognised and celebrated by Amnesty International this weekend as the organisation takes part in the Aboriginal Tent Embassy’s 40th Anniversary Commemoration.

Davos: World leaders protecting business over rights in economic crisis

25 January 2012, 11:32AM Be the first to comment

Governments’ failure to regulate business effectively is having a devastating impact on the rights of society’s most vulnerable people, Amnesty International warned today, ahead of this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos.

China must avoid excessive force in response to Tibetan protests

25 January 2012, 10:42AM 1 comment - add yours

China must avoid using excessive force in response to protests and allow independent monitors into areas of protest, Amnesty International has said after Chinese security forces in Sichuan Province reportedly fired on Tibetan protestors for a second successive day.

Egypt: Release of blogger Maikel Nabil is the end of a “cruel ordeal”

25 January 2012, 10:39AM Be the first to comment

The release of an Egyptian blogger and prisoner of conscience whose trial was flagrantly unfair comes months too late.

Egypt parties give mixed signals on human rights

24 January 2012, 03:54PM 1 comment - add yours

Most of the biggest Egyptian political parties have committed to delivering ambitious human rights reform in the country’s transition, but have either given mixed signals or have flatly refused to sign up to ending discrimination, protecting women’s rights and to abolishing the death penalty, Amnesty International said today.

Clemency urged in US child life without parole case

24 January 2012, 11:42AM Be the first to comment

Authorities in the US state of Louisiana should grant clemency to a woman serving a life sentence without possibility of parole for a crime committed when she was a child, Amnesty International said today as the state Pardon Board meets in Baton Rouge.

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