As part of a blog-swap with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Paul Arkwright, the UK Ambassador to the Netherlands , blogs on the start of the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations. Today marks the start of important negotiations in New York...

Today is the 40th anniversary of the US Supreme Court briefly stopping executions. USA Researcher Rob Freer looks back at that ruling and the use of death penalty by the US today. For a brief moment four decades ago, it looked like the...

Guest post by Kristine Garina , Chairperson of Latvian LGBT rights organisation Mozaika and founder of Baltic Pride In six years of LGBT activism in Riga, Latvia, I’ve never felt stronger about the importance of Baltic Pride than now...

David Kato (right) at Copenhague Pride 2010 On Wednesday 26 January, I was at a meeting in Brussels with other Amnesty colleagues from across Europe. It was there that I heard the news that David Kato had been brutally murdered. David...