More than 2,500 child offenders serving life without parole sentences Christi Cheramie clemency application to be submitted today in Louisiana The authorities in the USA must ban the imposition of...

Responding to the publication today of reports by the National Board for Safeguarding Children's rights in the Catholic Church, Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland Programme Director of Amnesty...

Responding to a decision earlier this week to commute the sentences of five United Arab Emirates activists who had been convicted of insulting UAE officials, a coalition of human rights organisations...

The two death sentences handed down in Belarus today followed a trial that has failed to meet international fair trial standards, said Amnesty International. Dzmitry Kanavalau was convicted for...

Declaring a baseless state of emergency targeting an ethnic minority and maintaining it in force for three and half years is illegal and discriminatory. Mario Monti’s cabinet must make things right...

Amnesty International has urged states to act on a UN report confirming that Syrian security forces committed crimes against humanity during their violent crackdown on demonstrators this year. The UN...

The success of the US Secretary of State’s visit to Burma should be measured on whether the authorities respond immediately by undertaking bold and far-reaching human rights reforms, Amnesty...

The Azerbaijan Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of the 20-year-old political activist Jabbar Savalan. The news was greeted with disappointment by Amnesty International, who have been...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) must end the confusion over where Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi should be tried, Amnesty International has said, after the court’s prosecutor said that the Libyan...

A new 75-strong set of Bob Dylan cover songs is being released in support of Amnesty International’s human rights work. Buy Chimes to Freedom from the Amnesty Shop The collection, Chimes of Freedom...