Amnesty International has today (12 March) called on President Obama to urgently establish an Office of Maternal Health to tackle soaring pregnancy-related complications and maternal deaths in the...

Amnesty International has accused the Azerbaijani government of stifling dissent after a court turned down an appeal by two bloggers against their conviction on fabricated charges of “hooliganism”. A...

Amnesty International urges Burma (Burma) to overturn a new law that bars all political prisoners, including detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, from belonging to a political party...

Amnesty International has warned that Slovakian plans to establish boarding schools for Roma Children's rights “and gradually detach[ing] them from the way of living they currently experience in the...

The Lib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael has spoken out over the plight of a prisoner on death row in Japan, dubbing the case of Hakamada Iwao “a tragedy and a scar on the conscience of Japan”. Mr Hakamada...

New report exposes endemic corruption as cases increases Survivors of rape in Cambodia face limited access to justice, medical services and counselling despite the number of rapes increasing in the...

March on Millennium Bridge to call for greater investment in Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and maternal health Hundreds of thousands of pregnant Women's rights's rightss...

Amnesty demo highlights global problem of maternal mortality Pictures available on request Hundreds of Amnesty activists descended on Liverpool Street Station earlier today to stage a mass ‘die-in’ of...

Amnesty International has strongly opposed any withdrawal or reduction of the numbers of UN peacekeepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after the government requested that the current force...

Amnesty International has condemned the trial of young blogger in Egypt, calling on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Ahmad Mostafa, 20, a blogger and prisoner of...