Upcoming meeting is the third in the multiple rounds of UN-hosted talks on Afghanistan in the last year ‘The rights of women and girls in Afghanistan are non-negotiable’ - Agnès Callamard Ahead of the...

Responding to the decision by the Namibia High Court to overturn the country's colonial-era “sodomy” and “unnatural offences” laws which had criminalised same-sex sexual conduct between consenting...

Liberty, Amnesty International UK, Human Rights Watch, Freedom From Torture and Inclusion London, addressed journalists in Westminster this morning Politicians need to see human rights as a solution...

‘This form of institutionalised oppression must be named’ - Agnès Callamard Gender apartheid must be recognised as a crime under international law to strengthen efforts to combat institutionalised...

The family of a British man arbitrarily jailed in Egypt have marked F ather’s Day by unfurling a giant banner down the side o f Brighton’s iconic pier as the latest stage in their ongoing campaign to...

Over 123 people arrested for peacefully protesting, posting comments online, hanging signs or writing slogans on walls At least 95 people including two children remain in pre-trial detention facing...

Increased use of plastic bullets, firing of Tasers and use of spit hoods - including on children aged under-13 8% of use of batons and 5% of use of police dogs on Irish Travellers, despite making up...

Today marks seven years since the Grenfell Tower fire and still no one held to account Survivors and bereaved families need justice now New ‘Failure to Prevent’ law needed that makes clear companies...

Responding to the sentencing of Chinese #MeToo activist Sophia Huang Xueqin to five years in prison and labour activist Wang Jianbing to three years and six months in prison for ‘inciting subversion...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch given permission to intervene in judicial review case Responding to the High Court today granting permission for Amnesty International and Human Rights...