Sri Lanka’s new government must urgently address a legacy of pressing human rights issues left by the previous administration, Amnesty International said today.

Amnesty International has called for an inquiry into allegations of decades of abuse suffered in Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland.

‘This terrible farce has gone on long enough’ - Kate Allen

First 50 of 1,000 lashes set to be meted out to Raif Badawi in Jeddah tomorrow

The Sri Lankan authorities must hold to account those who threatened three prominent opposition activists with death today and ensure that tomorrow’s presidential election passes without furt

‘Tunisia must repeal laws that allow for such prosecutions if it wants to show it is making a clean break from the past’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui

“Oil pollution in the Niger Delta is one of the biggest corporate scandals of our time”

Tens of thousands of survivors of Haiti’s earthquake which rocked the Caribbean country five years ago are homeless as a result of forced evictions and government policy failure Amnesty Inter