Israel/Lebanon: Urgent need for UN inquiry

Mustafa Wazni and sons amid destruction in Dhahiye, Lebanon

Amnesty International is calling on the United Nations to set up an international commission empowered to investigate the evidence of violations of international law by both Hizbullah and Israel and to make provision for reparations for the victims.

The Detention Centre in Yekaterinburg where detainees are reportedly routinely tortured

"Solving" crimes with torture in Russia

A new Amnesty International report brings to light the practice of torture and ill-treatment throughout Russia.

Women gathering wood at site for displaced Chadians at Goz Beida

Many many different stories

"It is late in the day on Sunday November 19th; we have been working in and around the town of Goz Beida in eastern Chad for 2 days now."
Read the AI mission's blog from Chad

Minaal, aged 3.5 years, daughter of Majid Khan who was transferred from secret detention to Guantanamo in September 2006

The pain of Guantánamo children

Children inside Guantánamo, and those outside whose relatives are detained, have all suffered the consequences of the US-led "war on terror".
Watch a new video on the impact of Guantánamo on children.

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