22 companies - including BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce - failing to undertake adequate human rights due diligence despite war crimes risk Findings come after court ruled UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia...

Russia and Ukraine have today finalised the exchange of 66 prisoners, they include 24 Ukrainian sailors captured off the coast of Crimea last year and Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. Marie Struthers...

El Salvador’s public prosecutor’s office is appealing the decision to acquit Evelyn Hernández, a Salvadoran woman who was imprisoned after delivering a stillborn baby. Responding to the ruling, Astrid...

Hajar Raissouni’s trial set to begin in Rabat on Monday Her fiancé is also charged, as are doctor at health clinic and two further staff members Raissouni, who has previously criticised the...

The on-going uncertainty around Brexit poses serious human rights issues, Amnesty International said today. While Amnesty does not take a position on the Referendum result or whether the UK leaves the...

Mugabe was adopted as ‘prisoner of conscience’ by Amnesty after being jailed during resistance years ‘Mugabe leaves behind permanent scars of his brutal rule’ - Muleya Mwananyanda Robert Mugabe, the...

In response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the nation and hundreds who had gathered in Cape Town to protest against soaring gender-based violence and femicide rates in the country, Shenilla...

Responding to the news that the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission’s acting director in Ghor province, Abdul Samad Amiri, has been kidnapped and killed by the Taliban, Samira Hamidi...

Today marks one year since ten soldiers were convicted of raping at least five aid workers and murdering a journalist in Terrain Hotel ‘After the compensation was awarded, I felt violated again, I...

Communications blackout is ‘clampdown on the hearts and minds of the Kashmiris’ - Aakar Patel A month after the Indian Government imposed a draconian communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir...