Romania’s continuing economic challenges that have seen two governments fall in fewer than three months are all the more reason for the authorities at all levels to close legal loopholes that affect...

EMBARGOED PRESS CONFERENCE 23 MAY, FARRINGDON The Amnesty International Report 2012, will be released on Thursday 24 May at 00:01 The 400-page State of the World’s Human Rights report provides a...

21 other activists, including Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja are also POCs Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of Nabeel Rajab, the director of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, who...

The Libyan authorities must not suppress freedom of expression in the name of protecting the 17 February Revolution, Amnesty International said following the adoption of a law criminalising the...

The inauguration of Vladimir Putin as the next President of the Russian Federation presents him with the opportunity to put human rights at the heart of his agenda for the next six years. John...

A pledge by China that it will allow Chen Guangcheng to go abroad with his family so he can study seems empty as long as the Chinese state keeps the activist’s wider family in detention and retaliates...

A raft of new tactics are being used to silence journalists in Sudan in a crackdown by Khartoum’s authorities dating from the start of uprisings in North Africa in January 2011, Amnesty International...

At least three Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights killed in one day Attempts by armed group to recruit child solders As fighting between the army and armed groups intensifies...

Promises to Chen Guangcheng that he can live a normal life if he remains in China, must be viewed with extreme caution, Amnesty International said as he and his family spent their first day reunited...

Released to mark World Press Freedom Day, song is also tribute to recently-deceased drummer Levon Helm Amnesty International has released “Toast To Freedom,” a new and exclusive commemorative song...