Responding to the failure today to reach an agreement over how to deal with the legacy of Northern Ireland's troubled past, Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland programme Director of Amnesty Inte

In the wake of last Friday’s atrocious attacks on Paris the EU must resist the urge to further seal off its external borders, which would continue to fuel a range of human rights abuses while

NGOs have called on the Irish and British Governments to ensure that any legacy mechanisms that may be agreed at the negotiating table in this week’s Stormont talks are ‘human rights co

World leaders must show true statesmanship and refrain from bowing to a knee-jerk anti-refugee agenda in the wake of the despicable attacks in

Woman under house arrest after hospital staff complained to the authorities

The world’s wealthiest countries must end their shocking inaction and begin to lead a coordinated response to the spiralling global refugee crisis by proposing a concrete plan for resettling

The world’s wealthiest countries must end their shocking inaction and begin to lead a coordinated response to the spiralling global refugee crisis by proposing a concrete plan for resettling

‘The fact that Abdullah Shalaldah was shot in the head and upper body suggests this was an extrajudicial execution’ - Philip Luther

‘It is tragic and absurd that Mohammed al-‘Ajami has been languishing in prison for nearly four years’ - James Lynch

“In a system where even lawyers can end up being tortured by the police, what hope can ordinary defendants have?” – Patrick Poon