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Sep 13 2013 5:38PM
Our six step plan to end the humanitarian crisis in Syria

Explore more infographics like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually . Tweet As the debate about chemical weapons dominates our headlines, civilians continue to bear the brunt in Syria. It is clear that...

Aug 29 2013 3:34PM
Military intervention in Syria: The human rights perspective

As America, the UK, France and Turkey debate whether or not to take military action in Syria, many of you have asked us to say if we are for or against it. You have demanded we take a stand. But the fact is that as an organisation, we...

Aug 21 2013 2:35PM
What Amnesty is doing on Egypt, and why

It was early in the morning of 14 August when Mohamed ( 1 ) heard the warning. He was taking part in the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in to protest against the ousting of President Morsi in early July. It had been threatened with dispersal by...

Jul 19 2013 2:17PM
Raisa Radchenko: Grandmother. Anti-corruption campaigner. Enforced psychiatric patient.

70-year-old Raisa Radchenko is being held in a psychiatric hospital in Ukraine and forcibly given treatment. She has no history of mental illness, but she does have a long one of causing trouble for the authorities. We think Raisa’s...

Jun 27 2013 12:09PM
The Act of Killing. You need to see this film.

To say I came to The Act of Killing with high expectations would be an understatement. With two of my all-time favourite filmmakers on board as Executive Producers (Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, in case you’re wondering) and a...

Apr 12 2013 1:24PM
Papua New Guinea: Help release women held captive, accused of 'sorcery'

Last week police stood by and watched as Helen Rumbali, a women's rights advocate and former school teacher accused of sorcery, was beheaded in front of her community in Papua New Guinea. Text PAPUA and your full name to 70505 to stop...

Mar 18 2013 10:22AM
You speak, they listen! The government responds to your actions on the Arms Trade Treaty

For the past few weeks, as world leaders prepared to meet for talks to agree the world’s first international treaty to control the arms trade, thousands of you have been telling your MPs how much you care. You have been emailing...

Mar 15 2013 4:31PM
Two years of tragedy - help us build hope for Syria

‘I heard my daughter Amani call her little brother and then I don’t remember anything. I don’t know how long I lay under the rubble before I was pulled out….The bodies of my wife and my daughter Amani were not found until six days...

Feb 21 2013 11:00AM
Pussy Riot one year on - still imprisoned, still defiant

Pussy Riot had only been in existence for four months when, a year ago today, some of the group’s members walked through the doors of Moscow’s main Orthodox Cathedral. They were to perform a stunt that would propel the feminist punk...

Jan 29 2013 2:50PM
Live Q&A with Gael Garcia Bernal - star of Oscar-nominated NO

Chile, 1988. Rene Saavedra is a successful advertising executive making campaigns for soft drinks and microwaves. He is about to become a fundamental part of one of the most important moments in Chile’s history. He is about to lead the...