Today isInternational Roma Day and a good time to reflect on the plight of the Roma inEurope and Amnesty’s work on the rights of Roma. Amnesty has been campaigning onthe rights of Roma as part of the Demand Dignity campaign, focussing...

As I've said before when blogging on these pages, the emotional upheaval of dealing with the fact that a loved one has disappeared must be horrendous. Really horrendous. I usually find even those clips of distraught family members...

London-based artists and activists look for AiWeiwei and all those disappeared by the Chinese regime Time: Saturday 9 April, 2pm Venue: on the lawn outside the river side entranceof Tate Modern A group of London-based artists and...

Roma families are being kicked out of their homes to make way for the development of Belgrade, according to a new report that we launched today from the Serbian capital, ahead of tomorrow’s International Roma Day. Roma are...

AiWeiwei (艾未未), artist, seized by police at Beijing’sCapital Airport and prevented from boarding a flight to Hong Kong on 3 April.Officials have yet to release any information about his whereabouts. Ai becomesthe most prominent victim...