Amnesty International will be publishing its annual statistics (for the year 2013) on the use of the death penalty worldwide on Thursday 27 March .

The Chinese authorities must immediately release the founder of a human rights website who has been detained following a police raid on his home, Amnesty International said today.

Mikhail Kosenko already detained for more than a year-and-a-half

PM should raise concern over ‘trigger-happy’ Israeli soldiers

Amnesty International has launched a major new publication on the right to remedy for victims of corporate human rights abuses.

Amnesty International is to brief US politicians in Washington DC this week on the ongoing failure to adequately investigate past human rights violations and abuses in Northern Ireland, in advance

At least 128 Yarmouk residents have starved to death since last July

Keira Knightley, Joseph Fiennes, Salma Hayek, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Sheen among stars who write to David Cameron about women in Afghanistan on International Women’s Day

‘The OSCE must quickly establish a strong monitoring mission and enjoy unimpeded access to all parts of Ukraine’ - John Dalhuisen