UN Human Rights Council condemned as having double standards The United Nations must immediately publicise its estimate of the number of civilians killed by the two sides in the final weeks of...

World leaders must invest in human rights as purposefully as they are investing in the economy, says Amnesty as it launches annual report The world is sitting on a social, political and economic time...

Amnesty International welcomes the decision by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to hold a Special Session on Sri Lanka today. Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific director, said: “For the...

Thousands of villagers have been displaced and thousands more are trapped in the cross fire in the Delta State since fighting began on 13 May 2009 between Nigeria’s Joint Task Force (JTF) and armed...

Fears grow that news from conflict zone will be restricted Three doctors who told the BBC of various attacks carried out by the Sri Lankan government over the last few months have gone missing...

As the war between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) reaches its final hours and the humanitarian crisis unfolds, Amnesty International is calling for key steps to be adopted to...

A “chain gang” of shackled doctors will parade in Edinburgh to call for the release of one particular doctor who dared to speak out on behalf of his patients – and was thrown into jail for his...

Tens of thousands of civilians in Northern Pakistan face an impending humanitarian disaster, Amnesty International warned today. Residents of Malakand, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP...

Reacting to Jack Straw’s announcement today that the government would abandon plans to hold coroners’ inquests in secret without juries, Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said:...

The Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) must immediately heed demands by the United Nations Security Council and similar calls made by US President Barack Obama and...