Press Release
USA: Global Speaker’s Forum on the Crisis of Maternal Health Kicks off in San Francisco
Amnesty International will host three special public town hall forums with its leaders from around the world and local...
March 27, 2011
Press Release
USA: Amnesty International Urges Congress to Turn Attention to Needed Reforms on Maternal and Childbirth Care
Now that health insurance reform legislation has passed, President Obama and Congress must urgently turn their attention to...
March 27, 2011
Press Release
Haiti: Haiti’s Emergency Response Must Include Protection From Widespread Sexual Violence, Says Amnesty International
Thousands of women living in temporary camps around Haiti are threatened by sexual violence and have inadequate protection...
March 27, 2011
Report
Persecution and resistance: The experience of human rights defenders in Guatemala and Honduras
This report focuses on risks that human rights defenders face in Honduras and Guatemala, where the pattern of human rights…
March 26, 2011
Report
USA: New York: Allegations of police brutality against participants at gay rally
Amnesty International is urging the New York authorities to carry out an investigation into allegations that officers from...
March 26, 2011
Report
Guatemala: No protection, no justice: killings of women (an update)
Since 2001 over 2,200 women and girls have been murdered in Guatemala and the rate of murders is on the…
March 26, 2011
Report
Uganda: Violence against women in Northern Uganda
Date: 17/07/2005 ""When we were given to our husbands we were expected to have sex with them. I was only…
March 26, 2011
Report
Mexico: Justice fails in Ciudad Juarez and the city of Chihuahua
The Governor of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico said recently that international attention on the situation in Ciudad...
March 26, 2011
Report
Sudan: Darfur: Rape as a weapon of war: sexual violence and its consequences
This report finds that rape and other forms of sexual violence in Darfur are being used as a weapon of…
March 26, 2011
Report
Uganda: Breaking the circle: Protecting human rights in the northern war zone
The war in northern Uganda is in its thirteenth year. The districts of Gulu and Kitgum, home of the Acholi…
March 26, 2011
Report
USA: “Not part of my sentence”: Violations of the human rights of women in custody
This document, produced as part of the USA campaign, gives details of the human rights abuses suffered by women in…
March 26, 2011
Report
Zimbabwe: No chance to live: Newborn deaths at Hopley Settlement
In June 2010, Amnesty International found that pregnant women and girls at Hopley settlement, in Harare, are at risk of…
March 26, 2011