Outside the unused airport in the Elliniko area of Athens, a group of Afghan women take off their sandals before sitting down on a blue blanket. Behind them is the […]

The killing of a journalist in Mexico – the fifth such incident this year -highlights the alarming situation of freedom of expression in the country, said Amnesty International. Javier Valdez […]

An Amnesty International team recently returned from the US-Mexico border where they investigated how President Trump’s executive orders on immigration and border security threaten to affect thousands of people.  This […]

An Amnesty International team recently returned from the US-Mexico border where they investigated how President Trump’s executive orders on immigration and border security threaten to affect thousands of people.  This […]

Senior Crisis Adviser Donatella Rovera blogs from Mosul, Iraq. Follow Donatella on Twitter @ DRovera. When they heard that there would be airstrikes on their neighborhood in eastern Mosul, Wa’ad […]

The killing of the third journalist in a month in Mexico raises new alarms about the state of free expression in the country, said Amnesty International.  Miroslava Breach, a reporter […]

Amnesty International was represented in this case by Fannie Lafontaine, François Larocque, and David P. Taylor. WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT? Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who in 2002 was […]

Amnesty International was represented in this case by Sacha R. Paul, Vanessa Gruben, and Michael Bossin.  WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT? Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who in 2002 […]

Amnesty International was represented in this case by David Baker and Faisal Bhabha. WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT? Mr. Hinzman was an American soldier. He applied for conscientious objector status […]

SUMMARY OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S SUMISSIONS TO THE UN COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD Canada underwent its third and fourth reviews of its compliance to the Convention on the […]

Amnesty International was represented in this case by Paul Champ. WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT? Until late 2005 Canada’s policy and practice was to transfer prisoners apprehended in Afghanistan into […]

RELEASED  WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2017 (00.01 GMT)          Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2016 to 2017            Risk of domino effect as powerful states backtrack on human […]