15-year-old Ebrahim Ahmed Radi al-Moqdad and 16-year-old Jehad Sadeq Aziz Salman were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on 4 April 2013 by The High Criminal Court in Manama, Bahrain. The children were sentenced along with three other...

Today is International Roma Day. Last week’s briefing from Amnesty Human Rights Here, Roma Rights Now highlighted horrendous human rights violations ranging from discrimination and hate crimes, to segregation and forced evictions. The...

Help celebrate the publication of the Methuen Drama book of suffragette Plays. Participants needed on 20th and 27th April for a 'living literature walk' following the suffragettes through theatre land. The event is organised by Scary...

5 th Update UA 232/12 3 April 2013 URGENT ACTION MDE 11/008/13 PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE DENIED VISITS BY FAMILY BAHRAIN Zainab Al-Khawaja (f) Bahraini activist Zainab Al-Khawaja has been denied family visits since mid-March for refusing...

UA 77/13 2 April 2013 URGENT ACTION AMR 23/015/2013 LAND ACTIVISTS RECEIVE DEATH THREATS COLOMBIA Mariluz Vásquez Fernández (f), Ingrid Vergara (f), Iván Cepeda (m), Marivel Vásquez Fernández (f), Gustavo Enrique Arrieta Pérez (m)...