The announcement came within hours of a joint press conference in Manila by the Coalition against the Death Penalty , attended by representatives of Amnesty International, members of the Catholic...

Amnesty International has received disturbing testimony from a survivor of the Chernokozovo 'filtration camp' that detainees, including Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and...

Monsignor Romero's criticisms of the human rights violations being perpetrated in El Salvador at the time and his commitment to defending human rights led to his violent and untimely death. As in the...

Supported by eyewitness reports and medical evidence, detainees have reported being repeatedly kicked, punched, kneed, beaten with truncheons and sprayed with pepper after restraint. The victims are...

'Last Wednesday's Freedom March-2 showed the international community that Belarusian authorities can allow demonstrations and respect the right to peaceful assembly,' Amnesty International stated. A...

Amnesty International is calling on the Chinese government to stop the arbitrary detentions, unfair trials and other human rights violations resulting from the official campaign against 'heretical...

'We are asking Governor Sundquist to consider how history will judge such a retrograde step at a time when more than half of the world's countries have turned their backs on the death penalty ,'...

'This would be in line with the call of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for a 'moratorium on executions with a view to completely abolishing the death penalty '', Amnesty International...

'This would be in line with the call of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for a 'moratorium on executions with a view to completely abolishing the death penalty'', Amnesty International...

Leading human rights activist Akin Birdal has been sentenced to two one-year prison terms for speeches he gave on World Peace Day in 1995 and 1996. Just two days before he is due to go to prison again...