Amnesty International UK Media Director, Lesley Warner, said: 'The Rwandese government has stage-managed the first post-genocide elections in a climate of fear and intimidation. 'How can the Rwandese...

Amnesty International said: 'Local and federal authorities in Ingushetia must immediately cease any attempts to coerce these internally displaced people into returning to what continues to be an...

Amnesty International UK Media Director, Lesley Warner, said: 'The Zimbabwean government has shown repeatedly that it is prepared to literally bludgeon any dissent to death. 'Southern African leaders...

Speaking from the human rights organisation's International Council Meeting in Mexico, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said: 'The brutal murder of Sergio Vieira de Mello is yet more...

Mauricio Alvarez, Victor Jaimes, Juvencio Serpa and Elkin Menco, all leaders of the USO in the city of Barrancabermeja, received the threat on 15 August. It came from an organisation called 'Death to...

Among the most popular holiday spots are countries where people's human rights are threatened by incommunicado detentions, torture or death. 'It is time to realise that information on the weather...

The US has sought unchallengeable executive power for itself in the 'war on terror' and has created a parallel justice system to detain, interrogate, charge or try suspects under the 'laws of war'...

The bomb which killed him is an outrage and we continue to hope for the other people affected. A full tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello on behalf of the International Council Meeting of Amnesty...

Amnesty International UK Economic Relations Programme Director Peter Frankental said: 'International companies must now recognise their responsibilities for human rights. It is no longer possible to...

Amnesty International, whose members in Kenya today joined Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and members of Kenyan non-governmental organisations in a demonstration to demand...