Last week Amnesty International published a report on Israel's assassinations, which have become an increasingly entrenched pattern in Israeli army operations. The report, showing not only that the so...

During the press conference, held at the offices of Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat (Office for Strengthening Unity, or OCU) the three student leaders criticised restrictions on freedom of expression and...

'We have the names of a number of Lebanese political detainees who have been held in Syrian prisons for years mostly incommunicado, following their transfer from Lebanon to Syria by the Syrian...

President Bush should also insist that Uganda cease all forms of support to armed groups in eastern DRC known to have committed human rights abuses. The conflict in DRC - a conflict that has been, in...

The Special Court has indicted Liberian President Charles Taylor for 'bearing the greatest responsibility' for war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international...

The human rights organisation, conducting meetings this week with President Karzai, Afghan minister for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's affairs and other officials and...

The organisation's report, on the anniversary of the incident, calls for an independent judicial enquiry to be set up with international support. No evidence was heard at the Inquiry from any of the...

The warning came in response to yesterday's decision by President Bush to name six detainees under the Military Order he signed in November 2001. The human rights organisation believes that this is...

Amnesty International said: 'Medina's murder was the first known murder of a journalist in modern Costa Rica, and it shocked that normally peaceful society. Now, two years later, the authorities'...

'The fact that so many rape claims over such a long period of time were neither investigated nor prosecuted shows a systemic failure of the UK army and may amount to institutional acquiescence which...