The review announced by the Irish government today into the separation of two Roma children from their families must be full and frank, Amnesty International has said.

Killings, enforced disappearances, illegal detention and arbitrary arrests of government critics are far too frequent in Chad and must come to an end, said Amnesty International in a report released today.

The Israeli authorities must drop all charges against a Palestinian human rights lawyer released on bail last night, Amnesty International has said.

Elements of Mali’s military appear to be carrying out a purge and extrajudicial killings of soldiers who took part in a mutiny at a barracks outside the capital Bamako last month, Amnesty International said today…

Two years since the end of the conflict in Libya, the entire population of a 'pro-Gaddafi' town near Misratah is a ghost town, with all of its 40,000 inhabitants driven out by militia groups.

The USA has carried out unlawful killings in Pakistan in its drone attacks, some of which could amount to war crimes, Amnesty International.

Saudi Arabia has completely failed to live up to its international promises to address the country’s dire human rights situation, said Amnesty International today (21 October), ahead of a UN meeting in Geneva on…

A decision by a court in Japan to deny a retrial to an 87-year-old man on death row is a “travesty of justice”, Amnesty International said today.

Diplomats from Commonwealth countries meeting in London today must push Sri Lanka to end its continuing crackdown on human rights defenders, Amnesty International said.

Amnesty International has denounced Egypt’s hardline policy of unlawfully detaining and forcibly returning hundreds of refugees who have fled the armed conflict in Syria.