Jalila al Salman is former Vice-President of the Bahraini Teaching Union. She was locked up in April 2011 for calling for a teachers’ strike to support growing calls for reform in the country, but released after pressure from Amnesty...

On Monday women’s rights advocates from across Scotland came to Edinburgh to learn how the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) can help women living here access their...

China Human Rights Briefing March 16-20, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention Three Tibetans Imprisoned for “Inciting Splittism” Fujian Petitioner Held Illegally in Government Building for Nearly 5 Months Freedom of Expression Shanghai...

In 2011 police in Mexico arrested Miriam López, a 30-year-old housewife and mother of four, in her hometown near the United States border. In a barracks, soldiers raped her three times, gave her electric shocks and near-asphyxiation...

Last July I spent a month as part of the Amnesty team lobbying governments as they strove to develop the world’s first global Arms Trade Treaty . That effort was delayed (but not defeated) when the US, followed by others asked for more...