* Posted by Frances * Last week I found myself at the Ritzy in Brixton for the screening of ‘ You don’t like the truth – 4 days inside Guantanamo’ as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival , a fantastic week of human rights films...

The TUC is supporting a lunchtime vigil on Monday 18 April – the 31st anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence – to protest about the rising level of violence in that country. The vigil will take place outside the Zimbabwean Embassy on...

Felicia Adjei, a vulnerable woman who was trafficked into the UKand brutally exploited in forced prostitution is facing removal to Ghanatomorrow. She is currently waiting in an immigration detention centre. Felicia comes from a very...

Highlights Harsh 10-Year Sentence Handed Down to Sichuan Activist Liu Xianbin: On March 25, the Suining City Intermediate Court in Sichuan Province convicted activist Liu Xianbin (刘贤斌) of “inciting subversion of state power” and...

Working for Amnesty International there are always some easy hits. There are few people who will argue that the Chinese Government isn’t executing enough people for tax offences . And I’ve yet to hear anyone defend the armed groups in...