Glasgow 2020 an 'unmissable opportunity to turn the tide' and avert escalating climate crisis - Kerry Moscogiuri Responding to the announcement that Glasgow has been confirmed as host for the 2020 UN...

Kumi Naidoo writes to 25,000 headteachers, urging them to ‘neither prevent nor punish’ pupils from taking part in the global days of strikes Letter comes ahead of biggest ever wave of global climate...

NSO Group has been under pressure over revelations its invasive technology was used against journalists and human rights defenders ‘The NSO policy comes too late for the scores of activists targeted...

Iran is the only country in the world that stops and punishes women seeking to enter football stadiums 29-year-old poured petrol over herself last week after being charged with ‘appearing in public...

Responding to reports that a Revolutionary Court in Tehran has handed four journalists and three labour rights activists jail sentences of between six and 18 years, and in one case a punishment of 74...

The on-going uncertainty around Brexit poses serious human rights issues, Amnesty International said today.

22 companies - including BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce - failing to undertake adequate human rights due diligence despite war crimes risk Findings come after court ruled UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia...

Russia and Ukraine have today finalised the exchange of 66 prisoners, they include 24 Ukrainian sailors captured off the coast of Crimea last year and Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. Marie Struthers...

El Salvador’s public prosecutor’s office is appealing the decision to acquit Evelyn Hernández, a Salvadoran woman who was imprisoned after delivering a stillborn baby. Responding to the ruling, Astrid...

Hajar Raissouni’s trial set to begin in Rabat on Monday Her fiancé is also charged, as are doctor at health clinic and two further staff members Raissouni, who has previously criticised the...