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Baroness Ashton to visit region in mid March. The EU’s foreign ministers and its High Representative for foreign affairs Baroness Ashton must insist on their right to visit Gaza, say 17 European human...

Amnesty International today accused the Mexican authorities of misusing the justice system to detain three community leaders following their protests against high electricity prices in the state of...

PANEL DISCUSSION ON: SHELL OIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN NIGERIA The Niger Delta is one of the world's 10 most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems and is home to about 31 million people. Its...

Taxpayers’ money could be used to fund child labour or slavery under new government proposals, campaign groups warned today. In a joint submission to the Export Credits Guarantee Department’s public...

Pupils at Glencraig Integrated School in Holywood will showcase a world-beating human rights project developed by teachers in Northern Ireland today (Tuesday 2 March). Primary 7 pupils will...

Amnesty International today (1 March) denounced the practice of flogging in Sudan, which particularly affects Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights. A new Campaign Briefing from...

Amnesty International has issued an “urgent action” appeal calling for the release of a Russian activist after she was forcibly detained in a psychiatric hospital in connection with her activities...

Amnesty International is calling on the government of Bangladesh to carry out a prompt, independent and impartial investigation into the death of two Jumma indigenous residents of the Chittagong Hill...

Amnesty International has today welcomed the publication of a contentious paragraph critical of the UK’s intelligence services in relation to the Binyam Mohamed case. Earlier this month the Court of...

Staff at a local radio station in El Salvador, have been sent a series of death threats by text, after their station broadcast details of the brutal murders of three individuals with anti-mining...