The Amnesty International Web site offers the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the organizations goals and activities, and membership information.

Amnesty International, one of the world's foremost human rights organizations, has recently published its 1998 Annual Report. The web version is not complete, but it does offer lengthy summaries of human rights concerns and abuses in a large number of countries. Users can view regional summaries with links to specific nations or access summary reports on specific nations, through the regional...

Amnesty International (AI), one of the world's foremost human rights organizations, recently released its 2000 Annual Report. As always, the report "documents human rights issues of concern to AI worldwide" during the previous year as well as reporting on "the activities AI has undertaken during the year to promote human rights and to campaign against specific human rights abuses." The report...

Released on May 30, this year's annual report from Amnesty International (AI) takes particular aim at torture and the death penalty, as well as urging governments to protect rights that may be threatened by globalization. The report begins with a Forward by AI Secretary General Pierre Sane and an extensive Introduction, both of which are also available in .pdf format. The bulk of the report is a...

Amnesty International offers a number of reports and press releases on human rights abuses in China and Tibet. The State Visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin in October 1997 represented a thaw in official Sino-US Relations, which have been somewhat chilly since Tiananmen in 1989. Despite reaching agreements on a broad range of security, economic, environmental and law-enforcement issues, the...