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The United Nations Council on Human Rights had its 16 session from 10 March to 23 in Geneva, during which Iranians from across Europe held talks, demonstrations and lobbied the delegates to vote for special rapporteur to be sent to...
Liu Xianbin, a long-time rights activist,was sentenced to ten years in jail on 25 March 2011. See more backgrounds about his rights activities and trial. Since the beginning of the Arab Revolution, the CCP regime continued to detain...
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen will be speaking to a TUC Solidarity Rally with the workers of Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and a dozen other states where right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away their...
Watching George Osborne deliver the Budget yesterday reminded me how it’s been nearly a year since we were gripped by the uncertainty of the outcome of a general election here in the UK. Living in a country without a formed government...
Today’s revelation from Amnesty that women protesters in Egypt were detained and subjected to forced ‘virginity tests ’, after being strip-searched as male soldiers looked on taking photographs, shows the extent of the challenges...