Zimbabweans are facing yet another difficult year in 2009, unless a
political settlement is found to arrest the fast deteriorating
socio-economic conditions in the country.
On International Migrants Day, new footage reveals the appalling state of a French detention centre for irregular migrants off the coast of Africa and shows how Europe is not giving migrants their rights.
Both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters are endangering the lives of Palestinian civilians – including by using them as human shields, says Amnesty International.
Professor John Evans Atta Mills must make human rights central to his political programme and commit to implement a clear agenda for human rights concentrating on seven key issues, says Amnesty International.
UN Security Council urged to demand that Israel, Hamas and Palestinian armed
groups observe an immediate truce to allow desperately needed
humanitarian assistance to the civilian population.
One of China's best-known dissidents has been under house arrest since 8 December, after he signed a campaign for political and rights reform in China, known as Charter 08.
A worker with the United Nations World Food Programme was killed by unidentified gunmen in southern Somalia, highlights the dangerous environment in which journalists and humanitarian workers in the war-torn country continue to work.
Palestinian civilians remain at risk of being killed or injured in the
Israeli air strikes and are increasingly lacking adequate medical care
food, medicines, electricity, water and other necessities.
Amnesty International has called on Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups to immediately halt the unlawful attacks carried out as part of an escalation of violence in the region.
Zimbabweans are facing yet another difficult year in 2009, unless a
political settlement is found to arrest the fast deteriorating
socio-economic conditions in the country.
