North Koreans caught using mobile phones to contact loved ones who have fled abroad risk being sent to political prison camps or other detention facilities as the government tightens its strangleho

A preoccupation with shipping people back to Turkey instead of making unconditional efforts over resettlement and offering other safe and legal ways to Europe, shows an alarmingly short-sighted and

‘It is shocking that citizens of Bahrain are being rendered stateless and being deprived of the right to reside in their own country’ - James Lynch

Today's government takeover of Zaman newspaper is the latest deeply troubling episode of the Turkish authorities’ ongoing onslaught on dissenting media, Amnesty International sai

The brutal killing of an outspoken indigenous leader in Honduras highlights the dangers faced by human rights activists in the country, said Amnesty International today.

Responding to David Cameron’s announcement at a meeting with French president Francois Hollande today that the UK will contribut

Total abortion ban in place in seven countries across Latin America 16-year-old girl died after doctors delayed treatment because of her pregnancy