By Ann Harrison, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme It was dawn when we arrived in Israel to begin our investigation into rocket attacks from […]

Campaigner Hilary Homes on today’s negotiations Once upon a time, treaty negotiations literally took place behind closed doors. Unless you had some good friends among the delegates, you had to […]

By Hilary Homes (Amnesty International Canada), Robert Fox (Oxfam Canada) and Ken Epps (Project Ploughshares) Long a significant advocate of global arms control, Canada will be conspicuously absent next year […]

By Tanya O’Carroll, Technology and Human Rights Officer for Amnesty International. Follow Tanya on Twitter @TanyaOCarroll Powerful surveillance systems are strangling freedom of expression and interfering with the legitimate work […]

By Marek Marczynski, Head of Military, Security and Police at Amnesty International. Follow Marek on Twitter @MarekMarczynski. Every year, roughly half a million people are killed by firearms, many of […]