Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova): the March violence: KFOR and UNMIK’s failure to protect the rights of the minority communities
Amnesty International is deeply concerned at the failure of the domestic and international security forces to adequately protect minority communities in the violent clashes which occurred on 17 – 18 March 2004. Nineteen people died and over 950 were injured in the violence and there was large-scale destruction of property. Over 4, 000 people were … متابعة قراءة Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova): the March violence: KFOR and UNMIK’s failure to protect the rights of the minority communities →
Democratic Republic of Congo: Ituri – how many more have to die?
August 2 2003 marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While international attention focuses on the installation of a new transitional government in the capital Kinshasa and the supposed end to the war, the atrocities in the east of the country continue. Following a three-week … متابعة قراءة Democratic Republic of Congo: Ituri – how many more have to die? →
Democratic Republic of Congo: on the precipice: the deepening human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ituri
The Ituri region of north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is suffering one of the world’s gravest humanitarian and human rights crises. An estimated 50, 000 have died as a result of armed conflict in the region and more than 500, 000 people displaced since mid-1999
Serbia and Montenegro: Kosovo: minority communities: fundamental rights denied
This report is a summary of a 70-page document, Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova):Prisoners in our own home: Amnesty International’s Concerns for Minorities in Kosovo/Kosova, AI Index: EUR 70/010/2003, in which Amnesty International details the findings of its research into the denial of the rights of minority communities in Kosovo. It examines how the abuse of … متابعة قراءة Serbia and Montenegro: Kosovo: minority communities: fundamental rights denied →
Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova): prisoners in our own homes: Amnesty International’s concerns for the human rights of minorities in Kosovo/Kosova
In this report Amnesty International details the findings of its research into the denial of the rights of minority communities in Kosovo. It examines how the abuse of civil and political rights affects the ability of minorities to access their social and economic rights. It includes recommendations to the international community and to the authorities … متابعة قراءة Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova): prisoners in our own homes: Amnesty International’s concerns for the human rights of minorities in Kosovo/Kosova →
Democratic Republic of the Congo: our brothers who help kill us: economic exploitation and human rights abuses in the east
This report concludes with recommendations aimed at achieving accountability and justice addressed to all parties to the conflict, both governments and armed political groups, and to the international community, including companies doing business in eastern DRC.
Croatia: attacks in the Hrvatska Kostajnica area – the effects of impunity
Jovo and Ljuba Dabic are ethnic Serbs from Donje Velesnje village near Hrvatska Kostajnica, Croatia. They lived in the town their entire lives, staying there throughout the conflict in Croatia until 17 May 1998. Amnesty International is concerned that because of their nationality, Jovo and Ljuba Dabic were violently attacked and that the impunity for … متابعة قراءة Croatia: attacks in the Hrvatska Kostajnica area – the effects of impunity →
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: a human rights crisis in Kosovo province: the protection of Kosovo’s displaced and refugees
Since March this year (1998) the world has looked on as gross human rights abuses perpetrated in Kosovo province of Serbia have forcibly displaced ever multiplying numbers of people, predominantly ethnic Albanians, who form the majority in Kosovo. Civilians have been the principal victims of the violence and have frequently been deliberately targeted.
A decade of unheeded warnings: Amnesty International’s concerns in Kosovo: May 1989 – March 1999
An index of concerns expressed for Kosovo by Amnesty International
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): killings in the Izbica area
Amnesty International delegates, in cooperation with members of the Albanian Human Rights Group, have interviewed dozens of refugees from the Drenica region of Kosovo province. The testimony of these witnesses, who had fled or been forcibly expelled from villages near Izbica and Kladernica (Kllodernicë in Albanian), in Srbica (Skënderaj) municipality, or had been hiding from … متابعة قراءة Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): killings in the Izbica area →
