1,032 executions worldwide in 2016, down 37% from 2015 (1,634) Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan join China in world’s top five executioners USA carries out lowest number of executions in quarter...

Lecturer criticised President for not providing free sanitary towels to all schoolgirls ‘Lack of sanitary towels is one of the leading causes of girls dropping out of school’ A Ugandan university...

Brendan Cox, husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, today warned against normalising ‘populism’ as an accepted movement in modern politics. The widower said the dangerous rise of the far right can be stopped...

President Trump’s concern for Syrians killed in chemical weapons attack contrasts with attempts to impose refugee ban In response to United States airstrikes on a Syrian army airbase in Homs, three...

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Hungary that receive foreign funding – even direct European Union support – risk being discredited and undermined by a draft law leaked to the media, said...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has contributed most to the progression of human rights in the UK in the last 80 years, a poll by Amnesty International UK and YouGov has found. The milestone...

Amnesty International will install Mark Wallinger’s ‘Ecce Homo’ sculpture at St Paul’s Cathedral in central London on the morning of Tuesday 11 April. The life-size sculpture shows the figure of Jesus...

‘Rather than clamping down on political satire, the state should be using the machinery of justice to investigate the recent horrific reports of mass abduction, torture and killings of gay men in...

The Ethiopian Supreme Court’s ruling today that two bloggers who were facing terrorism charges under the draconian Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (ATP) should face a new trial for offences against the...

Eyewitnesses tell Amnesty of victims vomiting from the nose and mouth before suffering paralysis ‘Children are the first ones to die, they cannot fight … back’ - Syrian doctor describing the aftermath...