Desmond Tutu, Nobel peace prize winner and former archbishop of Capetown, is to make an urgent plea to Libya on Monday . He will ask the Libyan government to clarify what has happened to a prominent dissident, Jaballa Matar. His family...

A BAE middleman has been arrested and held , charged with conspiring to make corrupt payments to promote the sale of fighter planes to Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary. The Attorney General, Lady Scotland, has not yet allowed the...

As the glare of the media spotlight fades from Haiti, the reconstruction and relief effort is only just beginning – and there’s where we need to ensure that women and girls’ rights is not forgotten. In 2008 Amnesty produced a report...

Paige Jennings, who used to be an Amnesty researcher on Haiti and a former UN human rights observer there, recently blogged here about the situation post-earthquake. She'll be giving further reflections in person next week in a seminar...

Headlines Nine Schools for Children of Migrant Workers Set to Be Demolished in Beijing’s Chaoyang District Hunan Village Representative Arrested for Complaining about Local Corruption Rightto Education NineSchools for Children of...