Renowned international rights group Amnesty International has chosen South African civil society leader, anti-apartheid campaigner and life-long activist Kumi Naidoo as the organisation's next Secretary General... READ MORE›
Amnesty's Turkey chairman Taner Kilic, imprisoned in June, will be tried alongside the 10... READ MORE›
Amnesty International's secretary general, Salil Shetty, visited Eser in prison in September and has called the terrorism accusations absurd... READ MORE›
In its latest report, Amnesty International just compared the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and populist rhetoric in 2016 to the 1930s, singling out President Trump in particular... READ MORE›
Police in France have been given huge new powers including the ability to put people under house arrest without trial and to block websites... READ MORE›
Dr Jiang, traumatised after witnessing seeing Chinese soldiers shoot fellow unarmed protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, was re-arrested in 1995 before fleeing China in 2003... READ MORE›
Human Rights Watch said in January that it had learned that militias had been recruiting child soldiers from one Iraqi refugee camp since last spring... READ MORE›
On October 2014, a criminal judge sentenced the once child bride to death by hanging, Amnesty International says... READ MORE›
Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day... READ MORE›
12 18PM GMT 02 Feb 2015 This map provides a snapshot of the human rights violations identified by Human Rights Watch HRW in their 25th annual review... READ MORE›
Muslims and refugees are being scapegoated and alienated as attacks claimed by ISIL rise, Human Rights Watch says... READ MORE›
Iraqi denial Later on Thursday, Iraq's federal police issued a statement denying its forces had been involved in extrajudicial killings... READ MORE›
Two women in Saudi Arabia made history last week when they became the country's first registered female voters, according to local media... READ MORE›
Companies needed to take a clear, unequivocal stance that did not tolerate links to human rights abuses anywhere in their operations and supply chains, said Zeid... READ MORE›
Saudi Arabia has executed the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the interior ministry said... READ MORE›
Saudi officials first proposed allowing women to vote in 2005, according to Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
Exclusive UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council... READ MORE›
Saudi officials first proposed allowing women to vote in 2005, according to Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
UNHCR said it was appalled by the deaths of refugees. All parties to the conflict denied involvement in the attack... READ MORE›
Morsed Chowdury, the lead applicant in the European case, and the human rights watchdog Amnesty International welcomed the decision taken by the court in Strasbourg, France... READ MORE›
An innocent young teenage boy has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia and we will not stand by and watch they warned... READ MORE›
Saudi Arabia has responded to these criticisms forcefully over the past year, arguing that its legal system is based on sharia, or Islamic law... READ MORE›
After this decision none of us who defend human rights in Turkey, whether it is Amnesty International or other organisations, are safe in this country... READ MORE›
Politicians who have used a divisive and dehumanised rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, says rights group Amnesty International... READ MORE›
Women in Saudi Arabia go to the polls for the first time on 12 December. Test your knowledge on some of their freedoms and restrictions... READ MORE›
Mastura signed a local regulation officially recognizing human rights abuse victims in the city... READ MORE›
Human rights at risk amid rise of 'fear and disunity' Amnesty International... READ MORE›
I just wonder how the Conservative government can scrutinise China for their human rights violations when they are being investigated themselves he said... READ MORE›
MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts... READ MORE›
Even states that once claimed to champion rights abroad are now too busy rolling back human rights at home to hold others to account, Amnesty said... READ MORE›
More than 45 civilians reported killed at livestock market in apparent air strike by Saudi-led coalition... READ MORE›
The economy of Eritrea has experienced considerable growth in recent years, explains the website for Australian mining company Danakali... READ MORE›
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