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The Corporate Responsibility Bill has been tabled following the government's failure to include clear proposals on business transparency and accountability to stakeholders in its own recently...

The proposals are to be discussed at this week's EU summit in Thessaloniki, Greece, starting on 20 June. The human rights organisation's 40-page report, Unlawful and Unworkable: extra-territorial...

The UK government should immediately establish a full, independent inquiry into non-combatant deaths in disputed circumstances among members of the UK Armed Forces, Amnesty International said today...

However, the poll - commissioned by Amnesty International UK, Refugee Action and Refugee Council - also shows that more than half of polled young people (51%) believe that asylum-seekers in the UK...

The proposal would be a serious blow to human rights protection in that country, the human rights organisation declared. Amnesty International also warned that the European Court for Human Rights...

The human rights organisation urging the authorities to take immediate measures to guarantee Gong Shengliang's safety. Gong Shengliang, leader of the banned 'Huanan Church', was originally sentenced...

In the last few days, while representatives of the international community have been meeting in Akosombo, Ghana, to find a solution to Liberia's internal armed conflict, fighting between the armed...

For over a decade the Tunisian authorities have used 'security' as a pretext to curtail the political and civil rights of hundreds of political and other prisoners and the 40-page report, Tunisia: The...

Jose Padilla, a US citizen, has been held in solitary confinement on a naval base in Charleston, South Carolina, since being abruptly designated an 'enemy combatant' on 9 June 2002. He has been held...

The organisation has issued an urgent call on the Burma authorities to release immediately all those who have been detained for their peaceful political activities, and has demanded that the...