Responding to the Hong Kong High Court ruling against “MK”, a woman who had filed a lawsuit claiming that the territory’s law breached her rights to privacy and equality by failing to recognise same...

Indiscriminate Turkish airstrikes and mortar attacks on residential areas, a bakery and school kill numerous civilians, including children Chilling details of grisly murder of Kurdish politician...

Hajar Raissouni, her fiancé and three medical staff should have sentences quashed and removed from their records ‘The Moroccan authorities must urgently decriminalise abortion and repeal all other...

ENGLISH Conference in Aberystwyth to celebrate human rights activism in Wales “We can all make a difference, and we can all be human rights defenders” – Elin Jones AM “Protecting human rights...

Under notorious sponsorship scheme, migrant workers cannot change jobs without employer’s permission and face criminalisation for ‘absconding’ Announcement comes after numerous earlier promises over...

Amnesty International is urging Hong Kong authorities to launch a prompt and thorough investigation into a brutal attack on human rights defender Jimmy Sham, who was today beaten by a group of men...

On Monday evening, the Metropolitan Police issued a revised section 14 order saying demonstrators protesting in London after 21:00 BST could be arrested. Allan Hogarth, Head of Advocacy and Programmes...

67% of land now occupied by commercial farmers Hunger and sickness rife, with some families eating wild leaves to survive ‘Traditional cattle farmers have lost their best grazing land and now watch...

Esraa Abdelfattah abducted in a van on Saturday night, before ordeal in National Security Agency custody One interrogator threatened to strangle her with her own sweatshirt unless she unlocked her...

Prominent prisoner of conscience - who turns 50 next week - is serving ten-year jail sentence ‘Ahmed and I were imprisoned at roughly the same time last year - I’m now free but he remains behind bars’...