In this letter, three non-governmental organizations, welcomes the newly appointed President of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the opportunity for WBG to provide ...
Two political opposition leaders were arrested on 27 August in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, after meeting with Amnesty International staff. Bekele Gerba ...
The Supreme Court of Mississippi granted Willie Manning a stay of execution on 7 May, about five hours before he was due to be put to death. He has been on death ...
Developments on the use of the death penalty in 2011 confirmed the global trend towards abolition. The number of countries that were known to have carried out death ...
Forty-year-old Bobby Hines is due to be executed in Texas on 24 October for a murder committed when he was 19. The jury that sentenced him to death heard no expert ...
Serious human rights violations and abuses, including crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions have been ...
On 14 December, the Ugandan Parliament closed for the Christmas and New Year recess without tabling the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Parliament is not expected to reconvene ...
Five men under sentence of death in Yemen could be executed in the next few days, according to sources in the country. They have exhausted all their appeals, and ...
The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been beset by violence and human rights abuses for two decades. Crimes under international law have been committed ...
