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AI Index: AMR 23/079/2001 "The new Security Law will make it easier for security force agents and their paramilitary allies to escape prosecution for human rights violations," Amnesty International...

AI Index: EUR 65/005/2001 The Framework Agreement, signed Monday in Ohrid, represents the best opportunity to ensure greater respect for the human rights of all people in Macedonia by establishing...

AI Index: EUR 65/004/2001 Amnesty International is concerned at the massive increase in human rights violations in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Macedonia), despite the government's...

"The soldiers who arrested me took me some good yards away into the bush from the checkpoint and took out a knife saying that they would stab me and butcher me like an animal if I refused. I obeyed...

ASA 57/002/2001 123/01 With only months to go before the mandate of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) expires its job in East Timor is far from complete. Law and...

AI-index: ASA 57/001/2001 27/07/2001 1. Introduction When the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) was established on 25 October 1999 under United Nations (UN) Security...

AI Index: ASA 21/033/2001 The Indonesian police are exploiting the fact that the world's attention is focussed on the mounting political crisis in Jakarta to carry out a wave of arrests in Aceh,...

AI Index: ASA 21/030/2001 Amnesty International today called on Foreign Ministers attending this ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting in Hanoi next week to acknowledge that human rights are part of the...

AI Index: ASA 24/001/2001 "During its session with the UN Human Rights Committee this week, the North Korean government should address continuing reports of grave human rights violations," Amnesty...

AI Index: AFR 19/005/2001 Amnesty International today called on the government of the Central African Republic to end further human rights violations after eight weeks of killings and detentions...

MDE 15/066/2001 124/01 Amnesty International called today on the international community to act promptly to end the Israeli policy of closures in the West Bank and Gaza. The confinement of more than...

POL 34/008/200, 116/01 A new Amnesty International report published to coincide with the start of the first ever UN Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons (9th to 20th July), demonstrates that...

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International ASA 33/016/2001 - 111/01 Following the death on Wednesday of an Afghan refugee who was thrown out of a moving car by...

AI Index: EUR 43/006/2001 Amnesty International today welcomed the announcement that former president Slobodan Milosevic has been transferred to the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for...

AI Index: ASA 21/021/2001 "Peace talks on Aceh, Indonesia, which are to resume in Geneva next week must prioritise human rights protection", Amnesty International said today. "Despite a succession of...

AFR 62/020/2001/109/01 During the past three years, thousands of unarmed civilians, including children, women, journalists and human rights defenders, have been subjected to torture in the Democratic...

AI Index: AFR 62/015/2001 Amnesty International today appealed to the different armed forces fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) to halt further killings and other...

AI Index: EUR 65/003/2001 As increasing numbers of refugees flee Macedonia, Amnesty International today urged all parties involved in the continuing conflict to respect the human rights of...

AMR 23/058/2001 The indigenous and peasant communities of the Rivers Sinú and Verde, department of Córdoba, are finding themselves increasingly caught up in the cross fire between guerrilla groups...

AI Index: POL 10/005/2001 Publish date: 30/05/2001 Amnesty International outlines human rights violations in 149 countries In a world where globalization is impacting upon every nation state and...