The Israeli authorities should immediately release a Palestinian detainee or charge her with a recognisable criminal offence and promptly try her, Amnesty International said amid fears that the woman...

Leaders of the military coup against President Amadou Toumani Touré’s Malian government must release the prime minister and other politicians from custody and take steps to protect human rights...

Amnesty International is today giving evidence on human trafficking to the Scottish Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee. In written evidence submitted ahead of the session , Amnesty has drawn...

Findings published exactly one year on from first airstrike operations NATO has failed to investigate the killing of scores of civilians in its airstrikes in Libya, Amnesty International said today...

Amnesty International today launched a new report revealing a huge jump in harassment and detention of political dissidents, human rights activists, journalists and bloggers across Cuba over the past...

‘Stigmatising them in this manner and leaving them open to abuse is deeply misguided’ - Michael Bochenek Amnesty International has called for an end to the stigmatisation of those with HIV in Tanzania...

Former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi must be sent to the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said following reports of his...

The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina must honour its 2010 commitment to ensure justice, truth and reparation for hundreds of survivors of wartime sexual violence, Amnesty International demanded in...

‘The Belarusian authorities must release the bodies to the families’ - John Dalhuisen The execution of two men convicted of carrying out a deadly metro bombing last year in Minsk has been condemned by...

A smear campaign against an Azeri investigative journalist must be investigated after an intimate video recording appeared online, Amnesty International said. Radio Free Europe reporter Khadija...