The UK government backed the oil giant Shell and mining multinational Rio Tinto in major human rights cases in the US Supreme Court after being lobbied for support, newly-revealed government docume

The international community has collectively failed to act on the lessons of the Rwandan genocide, said Amnesty International today as the world marks the 20 th annivers

On the eve of elections in Afghanistan (Saturday 5 April) and following the shooting of two journalists in the country, Kate Hughes, Afghanistan campaign manager at Amnesty International UK, said:

The EU’s deployment of up to 1,000 troops must only be the beginning of the international community’s renewed response to the ethnic cleansing in the Central African Republic, Amnesty I

Past Grand Prix human rights abuses still not addressed

Amnesty International welcomes the UK government’s move to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty which also includes strengthening British laws over arms trafficking and brokering of weapons by UK cit

A shocking increase in attacks by Boko Haram along with uncontrolled retaliations by Nigeria’s security forces has seen the death toll in north-east Nigeria rise to at least

A decision by Japanese prosecutors to appeal against a court ruling to grant Hakamada Iwao, the world’s longest serving death row inmate, a retrial will only add to the decades of psychologic