The Iranian authorities must halt all executions scheduled in the coming days, Amnesty International said, amid reports up to 23 individuals may be at risk.
Further information on UA: 176/11 Index: MDE 23/017/2011 Saudi Arabia Date: 27 July 2011. URGENT ACTION. execution of two brothers MAY BE imminent. ...
Thomas Arthur, aged 70, is scheduled to be executed in the US state of Alabama on 29 March for a murder committed in 1982. He has been on death row for more than ...
Amnesty International urges the two Presidents to put human rights at the top of their agenda for their forthcoming summit meeting. This meeting offers an historic ...
21 March 2012. UN Human Rights Council. Nineteenth Session. 27 February – 23 March 2012. Item 2. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for. ...
Paramilitaries have offered a bounty for the killing of Colombian human rights lawyer José Humberto Torres, a member of the Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee ...
Governments across the Americas continue to discriminate against Indigenous peoples by denying their right to have a say on decisions which may have devastating ...
The net of repression is widening in Iran. The authorities are arresting filmmakers, bloggers, human rights defenders, women's rights activists, lawyers, students ...
Connecticut became USA's 17th abolitionist state on 25 April 2012. Amnesty International welcomes this decision but regrets that Connecticut's abolitionist ...