Responding to news that the US Pentagon will indefinitely postpone a ban on older models of cluster munitions, Patrick Wilcken, Researcher on Arms Control and Human Rights at Amnesty International...

Media reports that current CIA Director to become new Secretary of State prompts concerns over his and likely successor’s record on support for torture According to media reports, the US government is...

African Union-European Union agreement criticised for placing emphasis on keeping people out of Europe Summit coincided with growing international concern at media footage of slave auction in Libya...

Verified photographs show Soviet-era cluster munitions used on densely-populated areas by Syrian government forces Doctors describe dire humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave ‘The Syrian...

“Pastor Mawarire was an innocent victim of Mugabe’s ruthless campaign to criminalise dissent” - Deprose Muchena In response to the dropping of subversion charges against prominent Zimbabwean pastor...

76 LGBTI people arrested in last two months, with more than 40 sentenced for up to six years Amnesty petitioning Egypt to end the homophobic persecution Responding to the news that a court in Egypt...

‘The real scandal of the visit was the insistence of Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing that “there is no discrimination between ethnic groups in Myanmar”’ - Ming Yu Hah Reacting to remarks by Pope...

Shocking footage of a migrant slave auction in Libya released by CNN must serve as a wake-up call to European and African leaders that deals struck to prevent migrants and refugees from leaving Libya...

"Lee Ming-cheh is the victim of a politically motivated prosecution” – Roseann Rife Responding to the five-year jail sentence handed to Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-cheh by a Chinese court today (28...

Massive cache of internal documents and other evidence points to Shell’s complicity in horrific crimes committed by the Nigerian military in the 1990s New Amnesty report calls for a criminal...