The Chinese government should scrap a new law aimed at further smothering civil society, Amnesty International said today.

‘It’s important that trade unionists around the world come out to express their support and solidarity with Giulio’s family and friends’ - Shane Enright

‘How many more women are we to see hauled into the dock before these archaic laws are consigned to the history books where they belong?’ - Patrick Corrigan

Residents in many of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas are living in terror after at least 11 people have been killed, including a five-year-old boy, in police shootings since the beginning of the mon

‘Homosexual relations’ criminalised under Bangladeshi Penal Code

“My dad married me off to a 70-year-old man who already has five wives. He threatened me saying if I don’t join my husband he will kill me.” – 13-year-old Maria

Responding to a speech made by the Home Secretary Theresa May today in which she set out her view that the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights, Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty Interna

Responding to a speech made by the Home Secretary Theresa May today in which she set out her view that Britain should leave the European Convention on Human Rights, Rachel Logan, Amnesty’s Le