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The organisation’s new report Laboratory of War: Repression and Violence in Arauca depicts civilians caught between warring guerrillas, army units and their paramilitary allies. The crisis in Arauca...

Following several years’ research in this area by an expert Sub-Commission at the UN, and further discussion at the UN over the last few weeks, this formal request was made by the UK government on...

“The US government has offered a vision of a world in which arbitrary unchallengeable detentions, potentially for life, are acceptable. “The Supreme Court must reject this vision and extract the...

“Mordechai Vanunu should be allowed to exercise his rights to freedom of movement, association and expression in Israel and should be allowed to leave the country if he wishes,” said Amnesty...

The Amnesty International UK Media Awards, sponsored by Pci: Live, recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge the significant contribution made to the UK public’s awareness and...

Alarming reports about the systematic rape of hundreds of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights by the government-backed armed militia, the ‘Janjawid’, are coming from the...

The four 12 and 13-year-olds, Nijirfan Saleh Mahmoud, Ahmad Shikhmous’Abdallah, Walat Mohammad Sa’id and Serbest Shikhou were arrested at al-Talane’ school, in the Syrian town of Qamishli, on 6...

A Safe Place features top players Thierry Henry, David James, Ashley Cole, Shaka Hislop, Lomana Lua Lua and Shola Ameobi, together with England manager Sven Goran Eriksson. Also interviewed are young...

The call comes as the EU Presidency prepares for talks with the Chinese Foreign Minister in Dublin this Monday, and with EU Foreign Ministers due to discuss the lifting of the EU arms embargo against...

Premier League footballers including Hearts players Alan Maybury, Scott Severin and Patrick Kisnorbo, Hibs players Kevin Nicol and Alan Reid and Livingston Captain Stuart Lovell teamed up against...