Human rights, including women’s rights, must be integral to any peace deal with the Taliban said Amnesty International as the USA announced that it was to start direct peace talks with Afghanistan’s...

Chinese mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) need to do more to prevent their operations from leading to human rights abuses, Amnesty International warned today in...

The Romanian authorities betray thousands of their citizens through broken promises and total disregard of their right to adequate housing, Amnesty International said in a new report published today...

Police in Turkey are refusing to acknowledge that they have people in custody following mass detentions carried out during the night in Istanbul, Amnesty International said today. More than a hundred...

A new report from Amnesty International has revealed that the Spanish authorities are routinely failing to investigate crimes committed during the Civil War and Franco period. Time passes, impunity...

Zimbabwe’s government must ensure there is no repeat of the violence that marred the presidential elections in 2008, Amnesty International warned today as the country’s leaders publicly disputed the...

Turkey researcher Andrew Gardner’s response Amnesty international has warned that the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan latest intervention in the country’s protest situation is “nothing...

Announcement came at news conference in Warsaw this morning A Yemeni man held at Guantánamo has become the third person to seek “victim status” in an ongoing investigation by the Polish Prosecutor’s...

The Bangladeshi government’s failure to address the contentious issue of land rights in the eastern Chittagong Hill Tracts region, has left tens of thousands landless and fostered a cycle of violent...

*Journalists support #FreeAliOthman campaign for detained Syrian media worker Amnesty International UK has announced the winners of its prestigious annual media awards 2013 for human rights journalism...