Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters and Canadian rock band Blurred Vision have launched a video campaign about Iran in conjunction with Amnesty International. "Hey Ayatollah” is a collaborative video...

Amnesty International, the world’s largest human rights organisation, is celebrating 50 years of work on 28 May 2011. To mark Amnesty International's 50th anniversary, Scottish campaigners, artists...

Those escaping tell of indiscriminate shelling and dwindling food supplies Scores of people have vanished from Libya’s Nafusa Mountain area apparently at the hands of forces loyal to Colonel al...

‘Include Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in the political process’ message needed Leaders of the G8 industrialised nations should take bold action to support human rights in...

Journalist had become focus of ‘mass tweet’ campaign Prominent Azerbaijani newspaper editor Eynulla Fətullayev was released earlier today under a presidential pardon and is now at home with his family...

In response to news reports of the arrest of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, in relation to the crimes committed in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where at least 8 000 Muslim men and boys were...

The arrest of alleged war criminal Ratko Mladić is a major step towards justice, Amnesty International said today as the Bosnian Serb former general was flown to The Hague to face trial on genocide...

Amnesty International has obtained video footage that the organisation believes points to a ”shoot-to-kill” policy being used by the Syrian security forces to quell reform protests. The footage...

The world’s best known political prisoner pays tribute to the world’s largest human rights organisation and looks forward to the day Amnesty no longer exists Amnesty International, the world’s largest...

‘ It was a vintage year for human rights journalism ’ - Kate Allen Northern Ireland journalist Eamonn McCann has been victorious at the Amnesty International Media Awards, collecting a human rights...