The Chinese authorities must immediately ensure detained activists receive all necessary medical care, Amnesty International said, after the reprehensible death of a leading campaigner who was repe

Almost half a million people have been forced from their homes over the last year as violence intensifies in war-torn region of Darfur in Sudan, according to an Amnesty report issued today (14 Marc

‘Extraordinary measures’ aimed at putting an end to ongoing protests in Venezuela - due to be announced by President Nicolás Maduro this evening - must not violate human rights, Amnesty International said today.…

Amnesty International will be publishing its annual statistics (for the year 2013) on the use of the death penalty worldwide on Thursday 27 March .

The Chinese authorities must immediately release the founder of a human rights website who has been detained following a police raid on his home, Amnesty International said today.

Mikhail Kosenko already detained for more than a year-and-a-half

PM should raise concern over ‘trigger-happy’ Israeli soldiers

Amnesty International has launched a major new publication on the right to remedy for victims of corporate human rights abuses.

Amnesty International is to brief US politicians in Washington DC this week on the ongoing failure to adequately investigate past human rights violations and abuses in Northern Ireland, in advance