The disclosure in the High Court on 14 July 2010 of a number of previously secret documents relating to the UK authorities’ knowledge of and involvement in the detention of UK nationals and UK...

Sixteen members of Combatants for Peace - a bi-national movement of Israelis and Palestinians who have put down their guns to engage in dialogue, reconciliation and joint non-violent struggle - will...

Amnesty International has called on the Kenyan authorities to halt the forced evictions in a Nairobi settlement that have left hundreds of families homeless and destitute. A bulldozer from the Nairobi...

Patients turn to addictive narcotics as tuberculosis makes comeback Amputation and other major surgeries carried out without anaesthesia are just one indication of the dire state of North Korea’s...

One year after the murder of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, Amnesty International is calling on the Russian authorities to stop the harassment and intimidation of her colleagues and to...

Amnesty International has condemned an overwhelming vote by the lower house of the French parliament to ban the wearing of full-face veils in public. 336 parliamentarians voted for the measure today...

Human rights activists spied on during doctor’s appointments and funerals, attacked and prevented from meeting The Tunisian authorities should end their subversion of human rights organisations and...

States must use every available minute to draw up a new international arms treaty that could save thousands of lives every year, said a coalition of campaigning organisations as negotiators from 192...

Amnesty International has condemned the bombings which struck a rugby club and a restaurant in the Ugandan capital of Kampala last night, leaving at least 64 people dead. Dozens of football fans who...

Amnesty International has condemned the conviction of the organisers of a Russian art exhibition which used religious symbols on charges of 'inciting hatred or enmity'. A Moscow court today sentenced...