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Records announced in this year's Secret 7" music and art project - Amnesty to be beneficiary

John Lennon, The Jam, Chvrches, Tame Impala, Etta James, Jack Garratt and Max Richter will have 100 limited-edition 7” singles in unique artist-designed sleeves

Northern Ireland: new First Minister must change ‘unlawful’ abortion law

Northern Ireland’s new First Minister must reform the region’s abortion law, which last month was found to be in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights by the High Court in B

Saudi Arabia: 'one year since flogging' vigil (Fri 8 Jan) for Raif Badawi as crackdown intensifies

Activists will mount demonstration at Saudi Arabian Embassy in central London on Friday, 11am-12noon

Saudi Arabia should 'heed growing chorus of international criticism' following execution spree

Last year Saudi Arabia executed at least 151 people, its highest recorded number of executions in a single year since 1995

Cameroon: authorities must come clean over fate of 130 people 'disappeared' a year ago

‘The fight against Boko Haram should not serve as a pretext for enforced disappearances’ - Illaria Allegrozzi

Russia's bombing in Syria has killed hundreds of civilians - new report

Russian forces appear to have used vacuum bombs and illegal cluster munitions Hospitals and residential areas hit

CHINA: Guilty verdict against Pu Zhiqiang is a gross injustice

The three-year suspended prison sentence handed down against human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang today is a deliberate attempt by the Chinese authorities to shackle a champion of freedom of expression,

France: new law threatens to make emergency measures the 'new norm'

‘Many people are being targeted solely on the basis of their religious practices or vague suspicions’ - Gauri van Gulik

BURUNDI: Amnesty briefing details country's descent into bloodshed

Security forces systematically killed dozens of people on the single bloodiest day of Burundi’s escalating crisis, Amnesty International has found.