Amnesty International is calling on the Indian authorities to take more concrete steps to end the death penalty and join the growing number of countries around the world to abolish this practice in law.  No execution has been carried out in India for five consecutive years but more than 50 people...

The Fiji Government has misrepresented its human rights record in a report to the United Nations, Amnesty International said today. The government has submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of a formal review of the state of the country’s human rights scheduled for Thursday 11...

Amnesty International has welcomed the news that Aminatou Haidar, a Sahrawi human rights activist who has spent the past month on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport, has returned home and been reunited with her children. Aminatou Haidar said that she was allowed to fly back to Western Sahara on a...

A Sahrawi human rights activist, on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport since she was expelled from Western Sahara by the Moroccan authorities, was admitted to hospital on Thursday morning as her health had deteriorated. Aminatou Haidar, who is currently in intensive care, refuses to be fed through...

Human rights lawyers in China have been harassed, forcibly disappeared, placed under surveillance and faced criminal charges for protecting the rights of others. Apart from regulatory curbs on “mass cases” and the annual assessment as a tool of controlling lawyers’ work, the Chinese...

(Brussels) – Kosovo and international authorities should act in concert to halt the recent wave of attacks and harassment targeting Roma communities, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. The action should include both speedy investigations leading to identification and...

Amnesty International has reiterated its call for an independent public inquiry into allegations of UK complicity in torture. The call comes in response to recent statements by the UK Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary regarding intelligence information gained through torture.The Chief of MI6,...

Thirty police officers in Brazil are to be charged with homicide, after an investigation that implicated them in the formation of a death squad and unlawful killings. Rio de Janeiro’s Public Prosecutors Office will be charging the officers, following its investigation into the deaths of 20...

Chinese authorities should hold an open and independent inquiry into the 1989 violent military crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square, Amnesty International said today.   The Chinese government has thwarted any attempts to shed light on the military crackdown that...

The world is sitting on a social, political and economic time bomb fuelled by an unfolding human rights crisis, said Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan today as she launched Amnesty International Report 2009: State of the World’s Human Rights. “Underlying the economic crisis is an...

More than six decades of human rights failures by governments have been exacerbated by the world economic crisis, which brought the problems of poverty and inequality to the fore, according to Amnesty International’s Secretary General. “It’s not just the economy, it’s a human rights crisis:...

Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20 grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by example and show real commitment to human rights. “To be truly global leaders, the G-20 must subscribe to global values and confront their own tarnished...