Leaders must demonstrate commitment at Nairobi summit In advance of an emergency global summit in Nairobi, Kenya, Amnesty International today (6 Nov) urged African and international leaders to press...

The deaths of at least 40 humanitarian or human rights workers this year alone, and the ever growing threat of attack by armed groups and militias, is putting at least three million Somalis at even...

New ‘checklist’ of human rights reforms issued Amnesty International has today urged US President-elect Barack Obama to make a clean break with the human rights abuses of the past. Having already...

Amnesty International is urging the Moroccan authorities to drop charges against Yassine Bellasal, an 18-year-old student, who has been sentenced to a year in prison for allegedly insulting the...

A year after the former President Pervez Musharraf unlawfully declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, the country is still suffering from the abusive policies he put in place on 3 November 2007...

Girl sentenced to death for being raped Contrary to earlier news reports, the girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13, not 23, Amnesty International can reveal. Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was...

Amnesty International has described a move by the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ask the Attorney General to investigate possible "criminal wrongdoing" by UK and US intelligence agencies in the case...

Control Arms campaign demands urgent move to end the carnage US and Zimbabwe only countries to vote against Today 147 states at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to move forward with work on an...

Amnesty International today released a report and new video footage that graphically demonstrates the ongoing suffering of the Zimbabwean people, as the three main political parties in Zimbabwe...

Colombia has taken one small step in a long walk to find justice for the thousands of Colombians victims of human rights violations, said Amnesty International as the Colombian government sacked 25...