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Venezuela: 'Extraordinary measures' to end protests must not violate human rights

‘Extraordinary measures’ aimed at putting an end to ongoing protests in Venezuela - due to be announced by President Nicolás Maduro this evening - must not violate human rights, Amnesty International said today.…

Global death penalty statistics to be published on Thur 27 March

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

China: Website founder detained in latest phase of 'concerted campaign of intimidation'

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.

Russia: court to consider 'Soviet'-style psychiatric detention of protester tomorrow

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

David Cameron should raise killings of Palestinian civilians during Middle East trip

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

Major new book calls for radical changes to stop corporate abuses

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

Amnesty briefs US politicians on 'dealing with the past' in Northern Ireland in advance of St Patrick's day

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

Syria: new report shows war crimes being committed in horrific siege of Yarmouk

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

Stars write to Cameron about Afghan women for International Women's Day

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