The sun certainly shone for the groups first walk for human rights on Sunday afternoon.

Six years too late, prisoner of conscience and victim of torture Ángel Colón has finally been released from jail in Mexico. Thousands of you took action to demand his release – thank you.

Thumb screws, spiked batons, leg irons and neck shackles.

Eleven members of the prominent Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) are either imprisoned or on trial, silenced for their peaceful activism.

This week the government announced that the UK will work alongside the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, to identify and resettle some of the most vulnerable refugees from the Syrian conflict, providing e

One year on from the Gezi Park protests, the government’s approach to demonstrations is as abusive as ever while impunity for police violence is rampant, Amnesty International said in a report publ

I've just sent an email calling on Ugandan President Museveni to veto the country's anti gay Bill. If you have a moment can you?