The welcome findings of the Senate committee's report on mandatory detention assert federal responsibility for ensuring that Australia's international obligations are met. 'Today's parliamentary...

Although Amnesty International welcomes the Togolese government's letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on 10 March reaffirming its commitment to an international commission of inquiry, the fact...

The civilians were reportedly killed while members of the LTTE - armed with rocket-propelled grenades - shot indiscriminately through busy traffic. The LTTE members were fleeing after a failed attack...

'Hafez Abu Sa'ada's return to Egypt today, despite facing possible imprisonment, is a courageous decision demonstrating his commitment to continue to work for the protection and promotion of human...

'Investigations of human rights violations committed during Augusto Pinochet's time in power must be vigorously pursued by the judiciary, and those responsible must be prosecuted,' Amnesty...

Amnesty International has highlighted a growing catalogue of reported human rights abuses in Chechnya, including the rape of Chechen Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in areas...

'This is a very exciting step for us -- it offers Amnesty International an opportunity to contribute more fully, here as elsewhere, to the movements in the Middle East actively engaged in building up...

Two former hostages recently revealed that they witnessed the killing of Russian news agency ITAR-TASS photo journalist Vladimir Yatsina, kidnapped in Ingushetia by a Chechen group on 19 July 1999. At...

Amnesty International is alarmed at the sharp increase in the number of executions and amputations that have taken place in Saudi Arabia this year and fears that at least 30 others currently in...

The situation of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls throughout the world lies in stark contrast with the grand rhetoric of the international community, Amnesty...