31/07/2009 – Amnesty International has recently launched a new report entitled The total abortion ban in Nicaragua: Women’s lives and health endangered, medical professionals criminalized. This report is being published on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the revised Penal Code of...

09/07/2009 – Amnesty International is publishing a new report today on maternal health in Peru which documents progress in tackling maternal mortality since the 2006 report, Peru: Poor and excluded women – Denial of the right to maternal and child health.

23/04/2008 – Letter to the Presidency to raise the following five current human rights concerns in Egypt: counter-terrorism and state of emergency; freedom of expression, association and assembly; lethal and excessive use of force against migrants and refugees; courts; and men convicted of...

23/04/2008 – The briefing provides background information on five key human rights concerns in Egypt.

15/11/2006 – The lack of respect, protection and promotion of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons is still an area for concern in several European Union (EU) countries. Amnesty International is concerned that in Poland, the rights to freedom of expression...

20/07/2006 – Letter to European Commissioner Vladimir Spidla regarding Amnesty International’s concerns on freedom of assembly in Latvia and the climate of discrimination and intimidation against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. See also documents: Latvian...