Blog by Domini Sowa (Amnesty International Scotland, Volunteer) Dr Binayak Sen does not look like a man for whom the term ‘seditious’ would be applicable. Yet the 62 year old public health practitioner, activist and prisoner of...

Andrew Marr interviews both the Dalai Lama and the International Development Secretary in the UK government, Andrew Mitchell, on BBC 1 on Sunday 24 June 2012 from 9 am. Last Sunday he interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese...

Senegalese musician, Baaba Maal, has written in the Guardian about food shortages in west and central Africa and has started a petition on Avaaz . When the petition reaches 1 million it will be presented to world leaders in a joint...

How can we witness such brutality and do nothing? “From where he was hiding, a 5 year traumatised, yet brave boy told reporters how his younger brother and mother were shot by the soldiers and died. He said he even saw the army...

It’s the day after the launch of our new report on Syria and as with most of our high profile reports, I have spent a significant part of today discussing our approach to researching alleged human rights violations. Inevitably we have...