Responding to the United States Department of Defense report to Congress on civilian casualties from US military operations, Daphne Eviatar, the Director of Security With Human Rights at Amnesty...

The Joint Human Rights Committee accused Facebook and Twitter of failing to do enough to protect female MPs and other public figures from online abuse during an evidence session yesterday (1 May)...

The District Court of The Hague today issued an interim ruling in the case brought by Esther Kiobel and three other women with regard to Shell’s involvement in the unlawful arrest, detention and...

Congress 1 May reporting deadline looming Recent research shows more than 1,600 deaths in Raqqa and at least 14 in Somalia from US-led operations ‘We hope to finally see an honest assessment of the...

Lyra McKee was due to speak at the Amnesty International and Queen’s Film Theatre World Press Freedom Day event Amnesty International and the Queen’s Film Theatre have announced that an event in...

New Amnesty International report shows Ecuadorian authorities are failing to prevent attacks against Amazonian Women environmental defenders Women have faced death threats, physical abuse, and one...

Harrowing investigation details instances of rape and abuse against children unlawfully detained in a maximum-security prison ‘To detain children with adults in the full knowledge that they may be...

Mehdi Sohrabifar (l) and Amin Sedaghat (r) (Credit: Private) Cousins Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat apparently unaware they were to be executed until moments beforehand Pair, arrested aged 15...

A Dutch court will this week (Wednesday 1 May) rule on an historic case against Shell, in which the oil giant stands accused of instigating a raft of horrifying human rights violations committed by...

Following the Internet shutdown in Benin as the country holds parliamentary elections today, François Patuel, Amnesty International's West Africa Researcher, said: “The decision to shut down access to...