Narges Mohammadi is vice president of Centre for Human Rights Defenders, founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi

Victims of child abuse have told a Northern Ireland Assembly committee today that The Executive Office has failed to prepare for the establishment of a compensation scheme following the conclusion

Silencing campaigners attempting to highlight human rights violations will not solve the problem of torture and other ill-treatment in Thailand, Amnesty International said today, as a press confere

Since seizing power in a 2014 coup, Thailand’s military has encouraged a culture of torture and other ill-treatment to take hold across the country, with soldiers and policemen targeting susp

Of the 20 incidents in the memo, an indictment has been filed against a soldier in only one case

Today’s International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction of Ahmad Al Faqi Al-Mahdi, a senior member of the Ansar Eddine armed group, must be the first step towards broader accountability for all

‘When I came, I thought, Hungary is Europe, maybe it will be OK. But I realise that they hate us here’ - Afghan asylum-seeker

‘Pakistan is clearly in breach of international human rights standards that protect people with mental illnesses’ - Champa Patel