I was flicking through a copy of the New Internationalist when I came across a 'country profile' of Sierra Leone. Amnesty's Demand Dignity campaign is active on the issue of maternal mortality in the west African country, home to 5.6...

In the wake of the massive humanitarian disaster in Haiti, Amnesty international have issued a statement reminding the relief effort to keep human rights at the core of aid delivery and redevelopment. The death toll has already reached...

The Amnesty children's human rights network have always beeninterest in fighting for the human rights of vulnerable streetchildren. Our children's rights advisor, David Maidment, founded The Railway Children , a charity that is...

How children respond to war and violence is interesting and worth our attention. Article 38 and 39 in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) deal with 'children in armed conflict'. Article 39 declares that: States Parties...