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Amnesty International is calling for action to identify and issue proceedings against state officials who failed to act to control the violence. The human rights organisation also expressed concern...

'If the government is suggesting there is a human rights and humanitarian case for intervening in Iraq then the House of Commons must take this opportunity to ask how best to address these human...

'The committee should be formed of independent experts in Sudanese law and humanitarian law. The Sudanese Government should act decisively and speedily to ensure that breaches of international...

The report details how Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights from all social and cultural backgrounds are subjected to abuse, assault and rape in detention. Some sectors of Women...

'The government has retained the right to send under-18s into battle by adding a declaration that it will do so if there is a genuine military need or due to the nature and urgency of the situation...

Amnesty International has, for a number of years, been denouncing the execution of Children's rights and youths at the hands of state agents or unidentified individuals, under circumstances suggesting...

On 20 February a National Court judge ordered the precautionary closure of the Basque newspaper Euskaldunon Egunkaria - the only newspaper written entirely in the Basque language - and the arrest of...

'Once again it is clear that there is simply no will to hold the Burundian armed forces accountable for their actions and to bring them to justice for gross human rights violations,' said Irene Khan...

'We are extremely concerned about the detention of people in connection with their peaceful participation in recent demonstrations in Egypt', the organisation said. Several detainees have been held...

'We are particularly concerned about proposed provisions to widen the scope of applicability of the death penalty and to extend the existing legal limit of detention before being formally charged...