Striking miners at Shabanie Mines near Bulawayo have been demonstrating since 7 September to get back pay dating as far back as January. On Friday 25 September, police opened fire on the strikers and hit several people. Three were...

Shabnam Madadzadeh, a university student and political activist was detained in February 2009 along with her brother. She was kept in solitary for 70 days and then transferred to ward 209. Although the bail money has been paid for her...

For the last two days, reports of women’s rights abuses have dominated the homepage of our site amnesty.org.uk , bringing the subject of violence against women to the fore of Amnesty UK’s online campaigning. Two of the items concern...

Alan in Belfast has done a better summary of the East Belfast Speaks Out event from earlier this week than I could hope to. In the comments section he even includes a link to the BBC radio news report from the event, which features...

I can remember almost exactly five years ago travelling to a school on the outskirts of Belfast where the enterprising Amnesty group had managed to get the whole school PLUS parents to add their faces to the million faces petition...