Constitutional and legal reforms now underway in the Dominican Republic could lead to violations of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s human rights, Amnesty International...

Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said: 'The elections in Iran are taking place against a disturbing backdrop that includes massive use of the death penalty, the detention of...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the situation in the Peruvian Amazon following violent events in the town of Bagua on Friday 5 June which led to at least 30 demonstrators and 22 police...

The North Korean government should immediately release two US journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment with hard labour, Amnesty International said today. The...

In a report published to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the war in Kosovo, Amnesty International highlights the continued failure of the authorities in Serbia and Kosovo to investigate and...

Somalia: Amnesty calls for investigation into killing of radio director Muktar Mohamed Hirabe is the fifth journalist to be killed in the line of work this year Amnesty International has today [8 June...

A Palestinian refugee in the UK, subject to a Control Order since 2005, may commit suicide in the coming days if he is not provided with travel documentation to leave the UK, according to his lawyers...

As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today briefs the Security Council on his visit to Sri Lanka, Amnesty International is urging the Security Council to demand that Sri Lanka provides full access to...

Amnesty International today welcomed the agreement reached by European Union member states on practical steps that could facilitate the safe release of Guantánamo detainees, and called on the US...

Increasing homophobia in Lithuania of great concern Amnesty International today condemned the Lithuanian parliament for voting to proceed with a bill that would bring in a similar regime to ‘Clause 28...