Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan led a mission to
Chile in at the beginning of November to assess the country’s human
rights situation.
Amnesty International’s
Secretary General Irene Khan has issued an assessment of the human rights
situation in the country and a set of recommendations addressed to the
Chilean government.
The Turkish Minister of
Justice has accepted the responsibility of the state in the case of
Engin Çeber who died after being held at the Metris Prison in Istanbul.
Chile's Supreme Court jailed five retired military officials on
Wednesday for involvement in the "Caravan of Death" – one of the cases
for which Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest ten years ago.
Brother and sister Jimmy and Myriam Bell, who were schoolchildren in
Santiago, Chile, during the 1973 coup, discuss their experiences under the
Pinochet regime.
The trial of Radovan Karadzic resumes today in The Hague. But are a small number of high profile trials enough to heal
the wounds caused by the horrific violations of human rights committed
by all sides to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Displaced civilians and refugees who fled during the conflict, as
well as those who remained in the areas where hostilities have taken
place, are in continued need of humanitarian assistance. Some also remain vulnerable to ethnically motivated attacks.
