By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s Crisis Researcher & Khairunissa Dhala, Amnesty International’s Campaigner for Sudan & South Sudan
The Sudanese government is keeping Blue Nile State closed off to human rights NGOs and…Continue Reading
By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s Crisis Researcher & Khairunissa Dhala, Amnesty International’s Campaigner for Sudan & South Sudan
“Because of the bombing” is what every single one of the refugees told us when …Continue Reading
By Roseann Rife, Head of Special Projects for Amnesty International
People around the world and in Taiwan will be celebrating the 9th World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October by calling on governments still using the death penalty to stop …Continue Reading
By Kartik Raj, Amnesty International’s UK campaigner
On Saturday, an Amnesty colleague and I visited the Irish Traveller site at Dale Farm, down a bumpy farm road outside Basildon in Essex. Hundreds of residents and supporters marched peace…Continue Reading
By Mohammed Lotfy, Amnesty International researcher for the Middle East and North Africa
Since the morning I had felt that this was going to be a historic day.
I couldn’t wait to watch live on TV the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubara…Continue Reading
By a member of Amnesty International’s Iran team
As a human rights worker I am used to hearing shocking stories. However, a recent spate of gang-rapes and sexual assaults in Iran highlights increasing violence against women in a country where wom…Continue Reading
On Friday 22 July, thousands of activists from 14 different countries worldwide will come together to raise awareness of the human rights abuses occurring in Gambia, in a Global Day of Action.
The global demonstrations coincide with a national holiday …Continue Reading
By Kondylia Gogou and Giorgos Kosmopoulos, researcher and campaigner in Amnesty International’s EU Team
After a three-day visit to the detention facilities of Fylakio, Ferres, Soufli and Tyhero on Greece’s border with Turkey, we left with knot…Continue Reading
By Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General
Arriving at Cairo airport earlier this week, the first time I had been to the country since the ‘25 January Revolution’, I got what seemed to be an early sign that some things…Continue Reading
By Neil Sammonds, Amnesty International’s Syria researcher on the Turkish-Syrian border
The road south from the southern Turkish town of Hatay rises steeply through verdant agricultural land. At the small border village of Guvecci I get out of the ca…Continue Reading
By Michelle Kigari, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Africa
As leaders of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) meet in Johannesburg this weekend in yet another attempt to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis, the big question rema…Continue Reading
By Nicholas Piachaud, North Africa Team
I can still remember the shock when I first saw the pictures. The young man’s face was barely recognizable from his beating at the hands of the security forces, and from an autopsy that, we would later learn f…Continue Reading
By Nicholas Piachaud, North Africa Team
I can still remember the shock when I first saw the pictures. The young man’s face was barely recognizable from his beating at the hands of the security forces, and from an autopsy that, we would later learn f…Continue Reading
By Nicholas Piachaud, North Africa Team
I can still remember the shock when I first saw the pictures. The young man’s face was barely recognizable from his beating at the hands of the security forces, and from an autopsy that, we would later learn f…Continue Reading
By Nicholas Piachaud, North Africa Team
I can still remember the shock when I first saw the pictures. The young man’s face was barely recognizable from his beating at the hands of the security forces, and from an autopsy that, we would later learn f…Continue Reading