I’ll be honest, I was caught up in the euphoria as Aung San Suu Kyi took her first steps of freedom in over seven years just before 11am on Saturday morning UK time. But 48 hours later and what does the pro-democracy leader of Burma’s...

Funny things postcards, aren’t they? It was always the case that you’d usually get back from holiday before your postcards did. Now that you’ll have been showing off about sunny weather and cheap cocktails in tweets and Facebook status...

An exhibition at Shoreditch Town Hall commemorates the thousands of Mexican women who have been murdered or have disappeared in the town of Ciudad Juárez, near the border with the USA.

The bus workers' union in Tehran is one of the few independent unions in Iran, and it faces continual harassment by the authorities. Union leaders Mansour Osanloo (an Amnesty prisoner of conscience), Ebrahim Madadi and Reza Shahabi...

Earlier this year Amnesty supporters helped to fund 4,000 radios for communities in remote areas of Burma. The many thank you messages included in the film above are moving testimonies to the impact of your generosity. But they also...