Iran has sentenced an accused member of an exiled opposition group to death, Amnesty International said Friday in an appeal for Tehran to rescind the ruling. Mohammad...

Nigeria’s main militant group said its fighters had attacked an oil facility belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta on Monday, in the face of an...

Irene Khan, the human rights group’s secretary-general, was speaking in Harare after its first high-level visit to the country in a decade. The fact that she has...

The global economic downturn has aggravated human rights violations and distracted attention from abuses, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The world faced a...

The LTTE and Sri Lankan government have prolonged the bloodbath of the Tamil civilians. One could observe the sharp compassion that had been wielding from every...

A law to protect women in Mexico has had no impact in the two years since its inception, leaving the safety of many Mexican women at risk.

President Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States Of America. On his shoulders, he is carrying a lot of responsibility which comes hand in hand...

Amnesty International has began a campaign named “Obama 100 days” to get him to disband the infamous Guantanamo prison for “war against...

Universal jurisdiction addresses the phenomenon of impunity or that which arises when a state fails to investigate its own human rights violations. Amnesty...

European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to allow undocumented migrants to be held in detention centers for up to 18 months and banned from European Union territory for...

China reiterates that it had ruled Tibet for centuries but Tibetans say their country was independent during that era. According to a latest report by Human Rights...

The human rights organisation Amnesty International has alleged in a report issued on Tuesday that the Mozambican police are killing and torturing people with near...

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Mozambique police of killing and torturing people with impunity as the country struggles to deal with...

Ethiopian troops were accused yesterday of slitting the throats of seven Somali men during a raid on a Mogadishu mosque that left 21 people dead, including the...

“The Bonfire of the Vanities” is of course the book by Tom Wolfe. I am only really familiar with the film adaptation but it is a fine story. Of things Tom...

An American expert in torture techniques has denounced his government for allowing “waterboarding” to be practised against terror suspects, just as a...

Numerous unnamed graves have been discovered scattered across 18 villages of Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The gravesites largely discovered by the Association of...

Iran’s penal code lays down the size of stones crowds should use to bludgeon adulterers to death, Amnesty International has discovered.

24 children have already been throttled to death in Iran since 1990 and 71 more are in the list ready to face the execution, if you’re able to read between the...

Amnesty International has expressed its concern over the mass killing in Nandigram, West Bengal, on last Wednesday by state police force that has resulted in deaths of...