Law reforms would be ‘important first steps’ to reaching global human rights standards

At least 18 people, including five children, have died as a result of lack of oxygen at hospitals

The Iraqi authorities’ failure to protect Sunni civilians from a wave of reprisal attacks by Shi’a militia last month is another example of widespread impunity for what are clearly war

Civilians in Central African Republic (CAR) remain at risk of deadly violence and instability unless serious weaknesses in the United Nation’s peacekeeping mission, MINUSCA, are urgently addr

Tens of thousands of people displaced by joint Russian and Syrian government attacks in the north of Syria must be allowed to cross the border to safety in Turkey, Amnesty International said today

The Chinese authorities are showing total contempt for due process and the rule of law in the case of five detained Hong Kong booksellers, Amnesty International said, after police in Guangdong in s

An international coalition of over 30 non-governmental organisations today welcomed the ambition demonstrated at the ‘Supporting Syria And the Region’ donor conference in London to incr

Heavy-handed emergency measures, including late-night house raids, travel bans and curfews, have trampled on the rights of hundreds of people in France leaving them traumatised and stigmatised, Amn

“This is no time for a diplomatic tap-dance around the issues of mass unlawful killings, arbitrary arrest and deaths in detention. ” – Kate Allen

Coalition of organisations point out that 50 Syrian families have been uprooted from their homes every hour of every day since conflict began in 2011