The Pakistan authorities must do more to protect the persecuted Shi’a Hazara minority community following a devastating attack in Quetta that killed scores.
Sudanese authorities must halt the execution of a Darfuri activist whose sentence was changed from 10 years' imprisonment to death, Amnesty International has urged.
The Bangladesh government must not let a proposed new legal amendment lead to a push for death sentences for those convicted in its ongoing war crimes tribunal.
Facts and figures relating to the issues of sexual and reproductive rights, in the context of the International Conference on Population and Development
Prisoners of conscience remain behind bars and activists continue to be jailed just for expressing their views, two years on from Bahrain's 2011 protests
Angola must not send to the Democratic Republic of Congo nine detainees held on charges in connection with allegedly attempting to destabilise the government there.
More attacks by the police on Zimbabwean human rights defenders cast doubt on the country’s ability to hold a credible constitutional referendum and election this year
From Indonesia to Peru, Sierra Leone to the USA, millions of women and girls are paying with their lives failed health policies, inadequate care, and discriminatory laws.
Authorities in Yemen “played deaf” to last-ditch calls to save a prisoner who was executed on Wednesday, Amnesty International has said.
Milan Appeals Court has ruled that two former top Italian intelligence officials and three agents were involved in the kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian national Abu Omar.
A temporary ban on YouTube imposed in Egypt over an anti-Islamic video sends "a dangerous message of intolerance", Amnesty International has said.
Halting the use of child soldiers in conflicts is just one of a series of compelling reasons for states to adopt a strong Arms Trade Treaty.
Two years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, frustrations in Egypt are growing at the slow pace of reform and ongoing abuses committed by police and other security forces.
The appointment of a new hangman raises fears that the country may be preparing to start executions again after a seven year hiatus.
A 20-year-old woman accused of 'witchcraft' after a boy died in the city of Mount Hagen was stripped, tied up, doused in petrol and burned alive.
Ten people have been executed since the start of the year including, controversially, one man who had been tried twice for the same crime.
The Myanmar government’s decision to form a committee to review political prisoner cases is a step in the right direction but the review needs to have a much wider reach.
Four Chinese migrant bus drivers could face up to a year in prison and steep fines for allegedly instigating a strike.
The Malaysian authorities must immediately release or formally charge two Malaysian men now detained under a repressive new security law.
More than 1.5 million messages were sent as part of Amnesty International's 10th annual Letter Writing Marathon at the end of 2012.