When The Economist features an article titled Modern Slavery: Everywhere in supply chains , we can be sure that the issue of slavery is on the radar of many corporations, not merely for ethical reasons but as a potential reputational...

By Laura Trevelyan, Amnesty's Advocacy Coordinator - Outreach. They say a week is a long time in politics but maybe today’s politicians can take comfort from the fact that 500 years after his death at Bosworth field Richard III’s...

This month we heard the good news that Jacqueline Montanez’s sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole has been officially vacated. We have been campaigning for clemency for Jacqueline Montanez for a number of...

Whilst we might like to think getting a driving license or commuting to work is hard, it could be much harder. Two people more acutely aware of this than most are Loujain al-Hathloul and Maysaa al-Amoudi. When trying to cross the...

I recently visited Pakistan to document the work of human rights activists who oppose the Taliban. In the city of Peshawar, I met with a journalist called Abdullah Malik who was threatened for highlighting issues such as the...