Former detainees held by the USA at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan have
told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) how they were subjected
to abuse while in cust
More than six decades of human rights failures by governments have been
exacerbated by the world economic crisis, which brought the problems of
poverty and inequalit
Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20
grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by
example and show
Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in
which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing
numbers of their colleagues a
Denied their rights to housing, employment, healthcare and education,
Roma are often victims of forced evictions, racist attacks and police
ill-treatment.
Palestinian armed groups and the Israeli authorities are denying prisoners their rights, including Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held for 1,000 days, and
