The oil industry in the Niger Delta of Nigeria has brought impoverishment, conflict, human rights abuses and despair to the majority of the people in the oil-producing areas, ac
Following the outbreak of the recent conflict in Gaza and southern
Israel on 27 December 2008 and then Israel's ground invasion of Gaza on
3 January 2009, Amnesty International delegates travelled to the region
on 8 January.
An Amnesty
International research team heard the stories of some of the thousands of Congolese people who fled across the Democratic Republic of
Congo border into Uganda in late November.
Thousands of people around the world took part in actions to
celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights on 10 December.
