The Russian authorities this morning sentenced environmental activist Igor Kharchenko to five days in detention for allegedly “resisting legitimate police orders”, Amnesty International said as it named him the…

‘The Haass proposals are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deal with the past by delivering truth and justice for victims’

The re-arrest today of yet another environmentalist in Russia’s Krasnodar region, where the Sochi Winter Olympic Games will open on Friday, is more evidence of efforts to silence dissenting voices and clamp down on…

Transgender people across Europe are being forced to decide between undergoing a raft of degrading measures to have their gender legally recognised and living with a gender based on the sex they were assigned at…

‘Vitishko and his friends have been trying to expose environmental violations during the preparation of the Sochi Olympics’ - Denis Krivosheev

With just over two weeks to go until entries for Amnesty’s Youth Awards close, Billy Bragg and Esperanza Spalding have called on 7-21 year-olds to enter the Amnesty’s Youth Awards.

The abduction and torture of Ukrainian opposition activist Dmitrii Bulatov is a barbaric act which must be investigated immediately, Amnesty International said today.

EU has so far offered to help less than 1% of Syrian refugees