Christina Cargill in running for Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year A Lisburn pupil was shortlisted today for Amnesty International’s Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year award. Christina...

Hundreds of bodies found in a mass grave in Zimbabwe may never be identified unless professional forensic experts carry out the exhumations, Amnesty International warned today. Bodies recently...

NGOs call on Government to respond to report's findings The Government must urgently respond to calls for a thorough and transparent review of all arms export licences to the Middle East and North...

The Chinese government is waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation of lawyers, to stop them defending the dozens of activists and political critics rounded up by the authorities in the last...

Amnesty International and NGO Arseh Sevom have called on the Iranian Parliament to scrap a draft law which would effectively deregister all non-governmental organisations (NGOs) currently operating in...

Recent Israeli government calls for the UN to retract the 2009 report of its Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict are a cynical attempt to avoid accountability for war crimes and deny both...

Reacting to the announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other detainees accused in connection with the attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001 will be tried by a military commission rather...

The international community must play a more active role if Yemenis are to get accountability for the bloody killings of recent weeks, Amnesty International said today (5 April) as it released a new...

Amnesty International strongly condemns the attack on the United Nations compound in Mazar Sharif that killed at up to 10 civilian UN staff and extends its sympathy to their families. The attack is...

The Azerbaijani authorities must halt their crackdown on freedom of assembly, Amnesty International said, after a "Day of Wrath" protest on Saturday saw scores arrested and others violently dispersed...