Nobel Prize-winning economist Prof Amartya Sen is in Belfast to pick up an honorary degree from Queen's University Belfast. The university was kind enough to extend invitations to me and about 20 other Amnesty members to attend a small...

Three weeks ago we appealed to you to help fund our Radios for Burma project. Thanks to your overwhelming generosity, we are now able to provide over 4,500 radios to the people of Burma. Due to this incredible response, we have...

' The Uyghur voice: 2009-10, and beyond ' by Henryk Szadziewski summarizes Uyghur's conditions since the bloodshed in Shaoguan and Urumqi.

The Independent carries a powerful front-page “special investigation” today exposing the abuse of asylum seekers while they are being forcibly removed from the UK. Sadly it’s not news to Amnesty. Back in 2005, our report on the...

Narges Mohammedi, journalist and human rights campaigner who worked with Shirin Ebadi in Tehran and managed Ebadi's offices of human rights centre after she left the country, was detained in her home on the evening of 10 June 2010 in...