Amnesty International USA: Most Recent English News ReleasesAmnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization.UN Human Rights Council, 7th regular session. Oral statement under item 8 of the Agenda. (Follow-up and Implementation of the Vienna Declaration and P- March 25, 2008 UN Human Rights Council, 7th regular sessionhttp://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA170592008&lang=e India: Concern over detention of peaceful Tibetan protesters- March 13, 2008 Amnesty International today expressed concern over the detention of around 100 peaceful Tibetan protestors in the north of India who were attempting to march to the Indo-Chinese border to highlight human rights violations in Tibet and mark the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet after his failed rebellion against Chinese rulehttp://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA200042008&lang=e Afghanistan: Women human rights defenders continue to struggle for women's rights- March 7, 2008 Women human rights defenders continue to struggle for women's rightshttp://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA110032008&lang=e India: Reports of torture and threat to fair trial of three journalists arrested for alleged links to banned Maoist organization- March 3, 2008 Amnesty International is concerned that three journalists arrested in three Indian states and charged with working for or having links to the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) are at risk of being denied their right to a fair trialhttp://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA200032008&lang=e |