El Salvador remains a highly dangerous place to be a trade unionist. Following pressure to bring its national laws into line with International Labour Organisation (ILO) core labour standards so that it could benefit from preferential...

On 15 January, Chinesepro-democracy activist Zhou Yongjun was sentenced to nine years' imprisonmentfor fraud. Amnesty International believes that his conviction is politicallymotivated. According to his lawyer, Zhou Yongjun is planning...

It’s not too often that you read or hear about repression and restrictions on free speech in Vietnam, it’s somewhat overshadowed by neighbours like Burma and China, where stories like these are reported more widely. You only have to...

The Millennium Development Goals , to be achieved by 2015, include: Goal 5: Improve maternal health Here is the Millennium Development Campaign's web page on Goal 5. As it says on that page, too often the day a baby is born is the day...

According to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: Kurdish dissidents are increasingly in danger of execution due to unfair trials. In recent months at least 19 Kurdish prisoners were sentenced to death. The judiciary system...