<p>Cambodian women are increasingly at the forefront of the battle against a wave of forced evictions sweeping the country, Amnesty International said today in a new report that urges the government to halt the practice. </p>

<p>BURMESE MONK NEEDS URGENT MEDICAL CARE</p> <p>U Gambira, a Buddhist monk imprisoned in Myanmar because of his role in antigovernment protests in 2007, is seriously ill in prison. Amnesty International has recently received information that his injuries resulted from torture he suffered in 2009. He urgently needs to be transferred to a hospital and treated for his injuries.</p>

<p>The release of at least 120 political prisoners in Myanmar today is a minimum first step, and authorities must immediately and unconditionally release all remaining prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International said.</p>

<p>Insurgents in the long-running internal armed conflict in southern Thailand must immediately stop their campaign of targeting civilians, Amnesty International urged today in a new report.</p>

<p><em>World's major human rights groups unite to campaign for investigation into North Korea's crimes against humannity</em></p> <p>The world&rsquo;s three largest international human rights organizations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), along with 40 other organizations from around the world, today launched a major global campaign to seek the establishment of a United Nations (UN) Commission of Inquiry to investigate crimes against humanity in North Korea.</p>

<p>It is time the EU work to establish a UN-led Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity and other crimes under international law in Myanmar.</p>

<p><span>Thai political parties must publicly commit to respect human rights, Amnesty International said today, on the eve of the country&rsquo;s first national elections in more than three years.</span></p>

<p>The Amnesty International has responded to its members' <a href="http://www.prachatai3.info/english/node/2457">open letter</a> dated 29 April regarding a cancelled event featuring Robert Amsterdam in Malaysia.</p>

<p>The Myanmar government&rsquo;s reduction of prison terms must be swiftly followed by the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International said today.</p>

<p>For the first time in several years, Amnesty International acknowledged yesterday that there was at least one prisoner of conscience in Thailand. This was declared in the agency's recently released 2011 report on human rights, which details how the freedom of expression is being curbed through the use of the emergency decree, the lese majeste law and the Computer Crime Act.</p>

<p>Members of Amnesty International in Thailand and Malaysia, together with academics, activists and students have sent an open letter to the AI Secretary-General regarding the interference on AI Malaysia.</p>

<p>In the latter half of 2009, shortly after one of Thailand&rsquo;s most notorious political prisoners, <a href="http://bit.ly/hbn5cV">Daranee Chanchoengsilpakul</a>, was sentenced to 18 years in prison under Thailand&rsquo;s draconian lese majeste laws, an experienced human rights advocate contacted Amnesty International&rsquo;s International Secretariat&rsquo;s Thai-based researcher, Ben Zawacki. The reason for the correspondence was to try to get to the bottom of why Mr. Zawacki and Amnesty had been almost completely silent on Daranee Chanchoengsilpakul&rsquo;s incarceration.</p>