Call for an international Arms Treaty ahead of key UN meeting in October Weapons transfers that fuelled the military crackdown in Burma and the ongoing conflict ravaging the Darfur region of Sudan may...

As the world waits to see the details of the agreement reached by leaders in Zimbabwe to end the political impasse since the March elections, Amnesty International today said the agreement’s validity...

Clemency board urged to act in case where witness statements included one from illiterate man who couldn’t read his own signed statement Amnesty International is calling on the state authorities in...

Amnesty International has issued a call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mohamed Erraji, the 29-year-old blogger sentenced this week to two years imprisonment reportedly for “lack of...

More than 130 crew members of at least nine ships are being held hostage by pirates off the coast of Puntland, in north-eastern Somalia. A number of the hostages are reported to have been injured...

Tens of thousands at risk as government tells aid agencies to leave war-torn Wanni The Sri Lankan government’s decision to tell United Nations (UN) and non-governmental aid workers to leave the war...

Concert on what would have been 30th birthday for artist who died tragically young Amnesty International and the United Nations Children's rights’s Fund (UNICEF) are to be the joint beneficiaries of a...

Amnesty International demands restoration of fundamental right The Thai government should remove restrictions on free speech contained in today’s emergency decree, Amnesty International said. Benjamin...

Former Guantánamo Bay detainee to hand prizes to winners of Amnesty International’s You Can’t Jail Minds competition tod ay Amnesty International today announced the winners of its prestigious poetry...

Amnesty International today called on the government of the UK to give the lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, a former UK resident imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, information which it holds and which might...