Declaring a baseless state of emergency targeting an ethnic minority and maintaining it in force for three and half years is illegal and discriminatory. Mario Monti’s cabinet must make things right...

Amnesty International has urged states to act on a UN report confirming that Syrian security forces committed crimes against humanity during their violent crackdown on demonstrators this year. The UN...

The success of the US Secretary of State’s visit to Burma should be measured on whether the authorities respond immediately by undertaking bold and far-reaching human rights reforms, Amnesty...

The Azerbaijan Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of the 20-year-old political activist Jabbar Savalan. The news was greeted with disappointment by Amnesty International, who have been...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) must end the confusion over where Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi should be tried, Amnesty International has said, after the court’s prosecutor said that the Libyan...

A new 75-strong set of Bob Dylan cover songs is being released in support of Amnesty International’s human rights work. Buy Chimes to Freedom from the Amnesty Shop The collection, Chimes of Freedom...

On 1st December, acclaimed artist Stuart Semple will host a live-art-letter-writing event in the Amnesty Shop @ BOXPARK (Amnesty’s first retail concept store, featuring collaborations by British...

An Amnesty International fact-finding team is in Egypt and available for interview. The team is in Egypt investigating human rights violations committed against protesters in demonstrations in Cairo...

“My house, possessions, clothes, all went up in smoke. Nothing was left” Cambodian Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights are increasingly at the forefront of the battle against a...

Lengthy prison sentences given to 16 men - including prominent advocates of reform who had tried to set up a human rights association in Saudi Arabia - are a worrying development According to reports...