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

A damming report by an independent group of experts into the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in September 2014 is yet another dark stain in the Mexican government's atrocious human rights

The high-level European delegation travelling to Turkey on Saturday must address the catalogue of human rights abuses faced by refugees in the country, not sweep them under the carpet, said Amnesty