Amnesty International USA: Most Recent English ReportsAmnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization.Australia: Up-date to briefing for the Committee against Torture- April 16, 2008http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA120012008&lang=e USA: In whose best interests Omar Khadr, child 'enemy combatant' facing military commission -- Summary Report- April 16, 2008 UNITED STATES OF AMERICAhttp://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510292008&lang=e USA: In whose best interests Omar Khadr, child 'enemy combatant' facing military commission- April 16, 2008 Ali Hamza al Bahlulhttp://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510282008&lang=e The death penalty worldwide developments in 2007- April 15, 2008 In 2007 the world continued to move closer to the universal abolition of the capital punishment. A historical landmark is the resolution on a moratorium on executions endorsed by the United Nations. By the end of the 2007, 91 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. The death penalty has now been abolished in law or practice by 135 countries. Other subjects covered in this report include commutations, judicial reviews, use against child offenders; and extradition.http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGACT500022008&lang=e Indonesia: Briefing to the UN Committee Against Torture- April 15, 2008 In May 2008, the UN Committee against Torture (or the Committee) will examine Indonesia's second periodic report which was submitted by the Indonesian government on September 23, 2005.http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA210032008&lang=e Canada, USA, Mexico: New Orleans Securty Summit- April 15, 2008 A letter from AIUSA executive director, Larry Cox, to President Bush, Mexican President Caldern and Canadian Prime Minister Harper, asking them to address concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership.http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080415001&lang=e Death sentences and executions in 2007- April 15, 2008 This document details the countries and territories that carried out executions, and the countries and territories that imposed death sentences, in 2007. During 2007, at least 1,252 people were executed in 24 countries. At least 3,347 people were sentenced to death in 51 countries. These were only minimum figures; the true figures were certainly higher. In 2007, 88 per cent of all known executions took place in five countries: China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the USA.http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGACT500012008&lang=e Death Penalty News: January -- March 2008- April 11, 2008 Death Penalty News: January -- March 2008http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGACT530022008&lang=e Somalia: UN Security Council Arria Briefing- April 11, 2008 The dire inter-linked human rights and humanitarian crises in Somalia require far greater attention by the UN Security Council (UNSC) and its member states. While Amnesty International notes the strategic and coordinated planning in security, political and programmatic areas of engagement on Somalia, as presented in the recent report of the Secretary General, serious abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law remain largely undocumented, unpunished, and ignored by...http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080411002&lang=e Central Asia: Summary of Human Rights Concerns: March 2007 -- March 2008- April 9, 2008 Amnesty International remains concerned that despite professed efforts by the governments in Central Asia to fulfil their human rights obligations and actual efforts by some states to remedy the worst abuses, grave human rights violations routinely continue to be committed with virtual impunity. This summary highlights some of the organization's most pressing human rights concerns in the various republics in Central Asia.http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR040012008&lang=e |