With the implementation of the Employment Permit System (EPS) in August 2004, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) became one of the first Asian countries to legally ...
Seven men, members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, are at risk of imminent execution in Ahvaz city, the capital of Khuzestan province. They were convicted in an ...
British national Akmal Shaikh, who is believed to be mentally ill, has been sentenced to death in China for drug-smuggling. He has now lost his appeal, and could ...
The inhabitants of a village in southern Mexico have been attacked repeatedly by a group of armed men, who have now chased away the police officers who were meant ...
A landowner attempting to drive an Indigenous community off their ancestral land in north-western Argentina has attacked them, leaving one man shot dead and four ...
Amnesty International submits this briefing for consideration by the Committee against Torture (the Committee). The document summarises some of Amnesty International ...
On the eve of Nigeria’s election to the United Nations (UN) Security Council as a non-permanent member, Amnesty International calls on the Nigerian government to ...