Amnesty International UK and the National Union of Students today revealed an amazing new top prize for their annual Student Human Rights Reporter of the Year award – a fellowship with the US-based...

Warning coincides with veiled threat to UK over parliamentary investigation The Saudi Arabian authorities must withdraw their threat to deal “firmly” with people taking part in demonstrations and...

New report heavily critical of secret justice plans ahead of debate on controversial bill ‘It’s a secret justice system straight from the pages of a Kafka novel’ - Alice Wyss The government’s plans...

Amnesty International today called on the Serbian government to introduce new legislation to stop the horrors of the forced eviction of the Roma community of Belvil being replicated across the nation...

Europe’s police services received a sharp wake-up call this morning thanks to a new hard-hitting briefing from Amnesty International on the policing of austerity protests across the continent. The...

*Shop worker Saeed Sedeghi among men whose fate is now unknown *Iran believed to have executed at least 344 people since start of year The fate and whereabouts of 11 men in Iran who were due to be put...

The decision by Argentina’s Supreme Court to allow a rape survivor to have her pregnancy terminated is a step forward for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights in the...

The Jordanian authorities must end their crackdown against pro-reform activists and allow them freely to express their views, Amnesty International has said today. Twenty detainees - all members of...

A wave of violent forced evictions, which has led to a number of deaths, is spreading across China as local authorities seek to offset huge debts by seizing and then selling off land in suspect deals...

The Mexican authorities must take decisive action to tackle the systemic and widespread use of torture and ill-treatment documented across the country, which dramatically increased under the...