Woman in same case hanged yesterday Amnesty International has made an urgent personal appeal to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to prevent the execution of a man who is believed to have been wrongly...

Amnesty International has today (12 March) called on President Obama to urgently establish an Office of Maternal Health to tackle soaring pregnancy-related complications and maternal deaths in the...

Campaigners say 'Every Day Should be Mother's Day' They may be political rivals at the forthcoming Westminster election but some of Northern Ireland's leading Women's rights's rightss rights's rights...

In a new report released today (11 March) Amnesty International calls on the Italian authorities to halt a controversial housing plan that has resulted in the forced eviction of hundreds of Roma and...

Amnesty International urges Burma (Burma) to overturn a new law that bars all political prisoners, including detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, from belonging to a political party...

Amnesty International has accused the Azerbaijani government of stifling dissent after a court turned down an appeal by two bloggers against their conviction on fabricated charges of “hooliganism”. A...

The Lib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael has spoken out over the plight of a prisoner on death row in Japan, dubbing the case of Hakamada Iwao “a tragedy and a scar on the conscience of Japan”. Mr Hakamada...

Amnesty International has warned that Slovakian plans to establish boarding schools for Roma Children's rights “and gradually detach[ing] them from the way of living they currently experience in the...

March on Millennium Bridge to call for greater investment in Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and maternal health Hundreds of thousands of pregnant Women's rights's rightss...

New report exposes endemic corruption as cases increases Survivors of rape in Cambodia face limited access to justice, medical services and counselling despite the number of rapes increasing in the...