Lawyers beaten, run over and shot dead Lawyers are coming under attack in the troubled North Caucasus region of Russia, particularly when trying to represent people accused of involvement in the...

A new UN resolution passed today, does a good job of highlighting past and on-going human rights violations in Sri Lanka, but regrettably fails to establish an independent and international...

‘International law demands the fence/wall and the settlements be removed from the Occupied Palestinian Territories’ - Ann Harrison Israel’s fence/wall through the occupied West Bank - and the...

The Turkish authorities must act on today’s announcement of ceasefire by the imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdulah Ocalan, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty International...

The North Korean government must co-operate fully with a new UN investigation - the Commission of Inquiry - into grave, systematic and widespread human rights violations in the country, Amnesty...

Reckless and illegal arms supplies from Europe, Africa and China to the warring parties in Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) over the past decade continue to fuel grave human rights abuses and violent crime...

Prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa must be immediately and unconditionally released, Amnesty International said after she was denied bail in a court appearance today. Mtetwa was arrested on...

Amid reports Bosco Ntaganda, leader of a notorious armed group the M23 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has handed himself over to the US Embassy in Rwanda, Amnesty International has experts...

UK has key role to play in vital talks Spokesperson available on request The time has come for world leaders to address the poorly regulated global Arms that fuels grave human rights abuses of tens of...