Italy must overhaul policies which contribute to the exploitation of migrant labourers, Amnesty International said today as it published a new report into the issue. In Exploited labour: Migrant...

A resolution against female genital mutilation (FGM) has been endorsed by the UN general assembly in a move hailed by Amnesty International. Today’s result was a first for the UN’s general assembly...

‘Foreign agents’ labelling one measure threatening Russia’s international standing Ahead of this week’s European Union-Russia summit, a group of eight international human rights organisations is...

Amnesty International has condemned the Bahraini authorities’ detention of a 16-year-old boy in an adult prison in violation of international human rights standards. The teenager, Mohammad Mohammad...

Asylum seekers and other migrants are the some of the hardest hit victims of Greece’s economic crisis, facing racist violence, squalid living conditions and a chaotic asylum system, Amnesty...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague today acquitted Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, who had been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...

Amnesty International said that there was a risk that a British Bill of Rights could be a ‘Trojan horse’ that results in reduced rights protection. The organisation was responding to the report issued...

Commission on Bill of Rights must not be a Trojan Horse for rights reduction Amnesty International said has said the UK government must not delay further on delivering a Bill of Rights for Northern...

Iraq has already executed at least 129 people this year Amnesty International is calling on the Iraqi authorities to halt the execution of 28 prisoners whose death sentences were reportedly ratified...

Amnesty International has hailed a judgement from the West African regional ECOWAS court yesterday that the Nigerian government and multinational corporations have been responsible for years of...