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Leyla M was reportedly sentenced to death on charges of “acts contrary to chastity” by controlling a brothel, having intercourse with blood relatives and giving birth to an illegitimate child. She...

Dame Beryl Bainbridge will officially launch Books for Amnesty, a second-hand book shop whose proceeds will support the work of Amnesty International, at 12pm in Camden on Monday 13 December. There...

Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Program, said: “The law is a direct attack on human rights in Zimbabwe and should be immediately repealed.” The Non-governmental...

Amnesty International UK Director of Refugee Affairs Jan Shaw said: 'We welcome today’s decision as an important recognition that an asylum system should provide a completely equal-handed process...

Reacting to the High Court ruling today (8 December) that the police were not acting unlawfully by preventing a coach of demonstrators reaching the US Air base at Fairford, an Amnesty International...

Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls are the 'collateral damage' in 36 conflicts around the world, said Amnesty International today (Wednesday 8 December), as it...

Trafficking, for both sexual and labour exploitation, is a huge problem in the UK, affecting Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights, Children's rights and men throughout the...

The event, ‘Voices in the dark’, will see leading Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s human rights activists from conflict zones join with dozens of British Women's...

They include: a 45-year-old man imprisoned for revealing the demolition of Protestant churches and repression of religion; another detained for protesting at the forced relocation of families from...

The report, Sudan: no one to complain to , describes how hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur are being denied justice and left without protection from killings, torture, rape and displacement...