One of condemned Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights says she was tortured into falsely confessing Amnesty International is warning that at least nine Women's rights's rightss...

Amnesty International is again calling on the Greek authorities to ensure that people made homeless following forced evictions are provided with suitable alternative accommodation, in line with the...

The hostilities that have caused the death of thousands of people around Sudan’s oil-rich Abyei must come to an end when the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague issues its ruling on the...

* New report condemns detention without trial of thousands in Kingdom * UK resident Shaker Aamer faces Saudi detention without charge or trial if transferred from Guantánamo Amnesty International has...

Northern Ireland campaigners will be joining activists from throughout the world this Saturday (25 July) to hold a Global Day of Action for Iran . Activists, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead...

Amnesty International has learned that at least 180 people face being flogged in the Maldives as a punishment for extramarital sex. The vast majority of those who are flogged in the Maldives are Women...

Dozens of protestors took part in a demonstration outside the Gambian High Commission in London to call for free speech in Gambia on the eve of the country’s national holiday, Freedom Day (22 July)...

84 people killed by police between January and May 2009 – an increase of 58 per cent over the same period in 2008 Amnesty International today welcomed initiatives by the Jamaican Government to tackle...

The conviction of Milan and Sredoje Lukiæ for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Tribunal) brings justice for the killing of...

Nigeria: Shell’s response to Amnesty International’s report Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta is disappointing In reaction to Amnesty International’s report of 30 June 2009...