Now that British troops have pulled out of Basra and the post-withdrawal analysis still rumbles on in the media Spiked has a really interesting piece dismissing the whole thing as a PR stunt - put yourself in the shoes of one of the...

So - our daily slog-to the-office here at the London Amnesty HQ is getting back to normal after the Tube strikes been called off (though, hey, when is commuting in London ever normal?).But imagine your daily commute if the military in...

Years go by and you hardly hear anything about it - and then it starts getting in the news every day. Thats how it is with Burma right now. At the weekend we had President Bushs significant other - Laura Bush - saying that the United...

Amnesty, as part of a movement of millions of people around the world, has been campaigning for action to end the brutal killing and rape in Darfur for more than three years now, and frankly it has been difficult to understand why the...

Tens of thousands of Bhutanese refugees have languished in seven overcrowded camps for 16 years, relying on international aid for food and shelter, and slowly losing hope of ever returning to their homeland Bhutan. During the 1980s...