Top-selling artists Rihanna and Shakira were told today in no uncertain terms to open their eyes to the plethora of human rights abuses inflicted on the people of Azerbaijan before they perform in the...

A new “cybercrime” law in the Philippines poses serious risks to freedom of expression and must be reviewed, Amnesty International said today Under the law, known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of...

ELDERLY VICTIMS NO LONGER FACE EXCLUSION FROM INQUIRY Amnesty International has welcomed proposed changes to the Historic Institutional Abuse Bill at the Northern Ireland Assembly. The proposed...

Amnesty International has expressed its fears over the fate of a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer who disappeared along with his friend as they made their way to work earlier this week. According...

Victims of sexual violence in Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict face little hope of ever getting justice, Amnesty International said in a new report today. The Colombian authorities have...

Children's rights as young as 18 months have been targeted during disarmament operation South Sudanese security forces have carried out acts of torture, shootings and sexual violence against civilians...

Today’s decision by Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic to ban Belgrade’s Pride march for the second year in a row is “a victory for prejudice” and puts the country in breach of its own law and...

Amnesty International has denounced the extra-judicial execution by firing squad of a man in Mali yesterday as a horrific and illegal act, and the organisation is calling for those responsible to be...

Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights protesters in particular have been singled out for abuse by the military President Mohamed Morsi should tackle the bloody legacy of police...

The medical staff are considered to be prisoners of conscience Six medical staff - whose prison sentences for their role in last year's pro-reform uprising in Bahrain were upheld yesterday - have been...