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  • May 28, 2008
    No truck with torture

    Amnesty is renewing its efforts to build an international consensus against torture.

  • January 16, 2008
    Amnesty launches campaign against stoning in Iran

    The global human rights group Amnesty International has called on the government of Iran to immediately abolish the "grotesque and horrific" practice of publicly stoning people to death.

  • November 1, 2007
    Pope will meet Saudi monarch for the first time next week

    Christian-Muslim relations and the rights of the minority Christian community are among the likely discussion points when Pope Benedict XVI meets with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah next week - after his controversial UK state visit.

  • October 16, 2007
    Amnesty, abortion and the abuse of women

    There is a continuing row between Amnesty International and the Vatican over access to abortion by women who have been abused and raped. Here AI explains its policy and contests representations of it by some critics and campaigners.

  • September 24, 2007
    Britain 'ignoring' millions of Iraqi refugees

    Britain has been accused of ignoring the plight of millions of refugees fleeing the violence in Iraq. A report by Amnesty International has said it was "staggering" that the UK had forcibly returned more refugees to Iraq than any other European nation.

  • June 14, 2007
    Support for Amnesty continues

    The attempt by the Vatican to get ordinary Catholics to stop supporting Amnesty International because it will not back a total ban on abortion - even in cases of rape and incest - is causing hurt, disappointment and anger among many people.

  • May 4, 2007
    Gaza journalist's plight symbolic for World Press Freedom Day

    The Catholic archbishop of Dublin and the Imam of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland marked World Press Freedom Day yesterday by calling for the release of the kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.

  • May 3, 2007
    'Sleepouts'

    Church Action on Poverty (CAP), Amnesty International, Refugee Council are looking for people to organise 'Sleepouts' across Britain.