Your browser does not have the necessary plugin to display this content. * Images reminder of ‘horror’ of penalty, say campaigners * Onlookers included Children's rights New video footage of a public...

Children's rights in Somalia are being recruited as child soldiers, denied access to education and killed or injured in indiscriminate attacks carried out in densely populated areas, according to a...

Amnesty International is calling on the governments of Brazil, India and South Africa to support a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning human rights abuses in Syria. The organisation...

Goran Hadzic, the only remaining suspect wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, was arrested today in Serbia on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes in...

Amnesty International has urged the Indian authorities to order the immediate clean-up of an alumina refinery in the state of Orissa, following a high court decision to reject plans for its expansion...

The Turkish authorities should halt a series of heavy- handed forced evictions which have already resulted in a number of vulnerable families in central Istanbul effectively being made homeless...

81 death sentences reportedly approved by President The Iraqi authorities should halt the imminent execution of five senior officials under former president Saddam Hussain, Amnesty International said...

The highest court in the UK today ruled in the case of Al-Rawi that secret evidence cannot be used in trials of civil damages claims in the absence of statutory power to do so. Amnesty International...

‘This law is a blatant attempt to stifle peaceful dissent’ - Philip Luther A law passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) making it an offence to call for a boycott against the state of Israel or...

A year after public attention was cast upon Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s plight, her life appears to remain in the balance. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old woman from Iran’s Azerbaijani...