Amnesty International has condemned the execution of two men arrested during protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election last year. Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour were...

Human rights, including Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights, must not be traded away or compromised during any reconciliation talks with the Taleban in Afghanistan...

Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights are dying needlessly during pregnancy and childbirth because discrimination prevents them from accessing sexual and reproductive health...

Responding to today’s “Joint Study” report by two United Nations Special Rapporteurs and the Working Groups on Arbitrary Detention and on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Amnesty International...

Two weeks after an earthquake brought great loss of lives and material destruction to parts of Haiti, the international community maintains its mobilization in bringing much needed relief and...

Inaction would give ‘green light’ to further violations, says Amnesty International Amnesty International today urged the new Honduran President to order a full investigation into abuses committed by...

“ We are gypsies and that is why they don’t listen to us ” - Monika, May 2009 More than 100 Roma people – including families with Children's rights – are living in metal cabins next to a sewage works...

New report ahead of London conference (27 January) Amnesty International today warned that the government’s heavy-handed response to the threat posed by al-Qa’ida puts Yemen at risk of being locked in...

Amnesty International has written to the Saudi Arabian authorities urging them to ensure that a 13-year-old girl is spared a punishment of public flogging for an assault on her teacher after a dispute...

An Ivorian court decision to transfer £30 million intended for the victims of the Trafigura toxic waste disaster to a group falsely claiming to represent them is a travesty of justice, Amnesty...