Responding to reports that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. President Donald Trump finalised a new £8.9 billion ($12.5 billon) arms deal in a meeting today at the White House, Raed...

‘The death penalty will not lower the alarming number of deaths related to the use of opioids’ - Kristina Roth Responding to an announcement by US President Donald Trump yesterday that his...

Amnesty International is disappointed at the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling refusing to revise its 1978 conclusion that the treatment to which the United Kingdom subjected the 14 ‘hooded men’...

Members of Proactiva Open Arms group being investigated for ‘criminal conspiracy’ despite rescuing refugees and migrants Following the Italian authorities’ seizure of a Spanish NGO rescue boat...

Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading towards a town where they abducted 110 schoolgirls last month, an investigation by Amnesty...

The European Court of Human Rights will tomorrow (Tuesday 20 March) deliver their judgement in the case of the ‘hooded men’. The case involves the torture and ill-treatment of the 14 so-called ‘hooded...

Since last night (16 March), at least 139 peaceful demonstrators in the Maldives have been detained. The demonstrators were protesting the recently declared state of emergency , and for the release of...

MPs from across the political divide voted today in favour of changing the law to enable families divided by conflict and persecution to be reunited in Britain. A Private Member’s Bill from the SNP’s...

64,000-name petition handed in to Andrew Holness’ office on International Day Against Police Brutality Shackelia Jackson, whose brother Nakiea was killed by police in 2014, among delegation to PM’s...

The targeted assassination of Marielle Franco, a human rights defender and Rio de Janiero city councillor known for denouncing police abuses and extrajudicial executions, is a sickening development...