Call for human rights team to investigate; arms transfer halt call Factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah forces in the Gaza Strip earlier this year left 350 Palestinians dead and has been...

On the day the United Nations celebrates its 62nd birthday, the leader of the Burmese National League of Democracy will mark her 12th year under house arrest. As Aung San Suu Kyi today enters her 12th...

Amnesty International has today called on the government of Sudan to end the obstruction to the speedy deployment of the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), the hybrid UN/AU force...

Hangings of 11 men and one woman latest in “alarming” upsurge of killings Amnesty International today expressed alarm at a new wave of executions in Iran and said that it has already recorded almost...

Protecting victims must be ‘put at the heart’ of stamping out sex trade, says Amnesty Amnesty International has today called for the protection of the victims of sex trafficking to be “put at the...

Amnesty International today launched an urgent appeal for Ali Mahin Torabi, convicted of a murder committed when he was 16 years old and now at risk of imminent execution. Now aged 21, he is being...

'Re-education Through Labour' - detention without charge, trial or judicial review for up to four years – should be abolished, said Amnesty International today in an open letter to the Chinese...

Amnesty International has today released new first-hand accounts of the recent crackdown on peaceful protestors in Burma We have seen police asking money from families of detainees if they want their...

Local Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s Groups are launching a campaign calling for Glasgow City Council to make a Freedom of the City award to the leader of Burma’s...

150,000 in refugee camps, families of 10 share a single room, punishments for building a wall Amnesty International is calling for an end to discrimination against Lebanon’s 300,000 refugees today, as...