Vigils will be held in Brazil and around the world this week in memory of those who died in the Brumadinho dam disaster last year. Amnesty International UK will join a vigil at the Brazilian Embassy...

More than 1,050 travelled from Northern Ireland to England to access abortions in 2018 Huge gap between number of women who legally accessed abortions in Northern Ireland and the number of women...

Tito Elia Magoti and co-accused Theodory Giyani charged with leading organised crime ‘The Tanzanian government continues to abuse the criminal justice system by detaining critics on unbailable...

Even attempt to report on the law has seen hasty media apology amid apparent fears of infringing the ‘deeply troubling’ legislation Country already under fire for treatment of migrant workers in lead...

Afghan authorities today made a public commitment to establish a protection mechanism for human rights defenders, in a move welcomed by Amnesty International and Afghanistan’s human rights community...

‘Vile decision’ to stage rally on Martin Luther King Day condemned There is currently no federal law prohibiting someone convicted of a hate crime from buying a gun On average, at least 23 hate crimes...

Ioane Teitiota brought case to UN after New Zealand denied his claim of asylum as a ‘climate refugee’ ‘Governments must consider this dangerous reality and a heating planet’s imminent threat to...

Two contract psychologists to testify at Guantánamo for first time James E Mitchell and John ‘Bruce’ Jessen responsible for waterboarding, confinement in small boxes, beatings and sleep deprivation...

Amnesty International will mark the fourth anniversary of the unsolved murder of the Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni with vigils in Cambridge and outside the Egyptian Embassy in London...

Summit in Germany takes place on Sunday Amnesty investigation unearthed evidence of war crimes by both Tripoli government and Haftar’s forces EU countries attending summit must also commit to ending...