Ayatollah Khamenei's televised address calls for an end to street protests against the outcome of the election and warns people that if they continue to take to the st
As Amnesty International ends its high-level mission to Kenya, Secretary General Irene Khan urges the government to tackle impunity for human rights violatio
Iran's tenth presidential election on 12 June, will take place against a backdrop of discrimination, worsening repression of dissent and violent unrest.
Plans to kill Marcelo Freixo and his aide were found during a
long-term police operation against militia groups controlling over a hundred shantytowns in Rio de Janei
20,000 people who live in Warri South and southwest local government
area, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, are caught in cross fire
between the Joint Task Forc
The Pakistani military and Taleban insurgents should immediately allow
tens of thousands of civilians caught in the middle of ferocious
fighting to leave.
The Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE) must allow
tens of thousands of civilians to leave the 'No Fire Zone', Amnesty
Internation
Amnesty International urged the UN Security Council to take action
after at least 35 people were reported to have been killed in northern
Sri Lanka in an attack on a
