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Peter Splinter, Amnesty International’s representative at the UN in Geneva, said: "Nepal is on the verge of a human rights catastrophe. Basic human rights have been suspended; impunity is rampant...

The authorities must open investigations into the allegations of unlawful killings, deaths resulting from torture and ill-treatment in custody and torture of Kurds that have come to light since March...

Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Stephen Bowen said: "With all of the detail around 'concessions' and amendments to this legislation, we shouldn’t lose sight of the simple fact that...

The report, featuring cases as recent as February this year, updates a December report on the risks faced by human rights activists in China. Ye Guozhu, a housing rights activist in Beijing, was...

Amnesty International Scotland and the Sunday Herald are inviting entries for a competition for the best article by a student in Scotland on the theme of ‘asylum and persecution’. The award aims to...

There are now estimated to be almost 650 million small arms in the world today, mostly in the hands of men, and nearly 60 percent of them in the hands of private individuals. Women's rights's rightss...

The demonstration will see a ‘prisoner’ held inside a small cage along with an armchair and a standard lamp - symbolising house arrest measures, one of the ‘control order’ powers that the Home...

But the organisation warned that many more human rights defenders – journalists, lawyers and activists – face threats and attacks every day around the world. Already this year, Amnesty...

Kate Allen continued: "The death penalty does nothing to deter crime and is a human rights violation that brings shame on those countries that use it. In addition, innocent people are always at risk...

The report, What a Waste: The Case for An Integrated Violence Against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights Strategy examines Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's...