'Their arrest follows on from the detention of hundreds of men, Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights previously detained after anti-war demonstrations in...

Amnesty International is concerned that emergency regulations introduced after the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic on 12 March might give rise to human rights violations, particularly...

The organisation is working on the cases of three journalists who are currently being persecuted for their work: Firas Nassuh Salim Al-Majali in Qatar Clara Britos, editor of an Argentinean newspaper...

An Amnesty International spokesperson said: 'We have asked the UK and US governments to confirm that they would not use such indiscriminate weapons because of the threat they pose to civilians. Now we...

The call comes as Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for the Department of Trade and Industry, today goes in front of a parliamentary committee to defend the government's new controls on arms exports...

'In what appears to have been the biggest crackdown in a decade, independent journalists, members of human rights groups, political activists and other perceived dissidents across the country have...

About 50 people are believed to be aboard the ferry, now drifting in international waters north of the Cuban coast. The hijackers are reportedly demanding extra fuel to continue to the United States...

The execution, which is scheduled for 6pm evening (midnight GMT) on 3 April in Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, is prohibited by international law which forbids the use of the death penalty...

Under provisions contained in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act (2002), from 1 April 2003 the Home Secretary can deprive a person of citizenship on vague national interest grounds. Those...

The human rights organisation is disappointed that, despite the military government's pledges to improve human rights in the country, the pace of releases of political prisoners has decreased and new...