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Without prejudging the mandate and terms of reference of this national commission, Amnesty International calls on the Togolese authorities to ensure that any such judicial investigation is conducted...

'The perpetrators are agents of the state and armed groups, but most often they are members of their own family, community or employers. For many Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's...

Amnesty International UK Communications Director Richard Bunting said: 'Amnesty International has documented a frightening pattern of violence by the Zimbabwean Government against its critics in...

However, Amnesty International is concerned that tens of thousands of civilians displaced by the violence are without basic humanitarian assistance. 'We call on Burundi's military and civilian...

Mohamad Ezam Mohamad Nor was arrested following a report on 4 March in the pro-government newspaper Mingguan Malaysia that he had called for mass protests to overthrow the government. He has denied...

This trial should never have taken place. It forms part of a wave of judicial proceedings against human rights defenders in Morocco and the banned Islamist association al-Adl wa'l-Ihsan (Justice and...

Convicted in 1982 for the murder of David Kinnamon in Las Vegas in 1980, Thomas Nevius has been on death row in Nevada for nearly two decades. Amnesty International's report highlights several...

The government must take all urgent and necessary measures to address the concerns of the people, the media and civil society in Cameroon and to guarantee that they freely express themselves on the...

'Too often, police officers and prison guards, abuse their power to rape and sexually abuse Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in their custody. With the intent to humiliate...

'As a member of the United Nations, the FRY is obliged to surrender Slobodan Milosevic and all other people indicted by the Tribunal to its custody', the organization stressed. On Wednesday 28...