Amnesty International News

Amnesty International pointed out that those millions of people who were compelled to leave their own country to escape war and persecution, or those who migrated for job opportunities aiming to improve their lives, are being abused and discriminated.

Japan is facing increasing international condemnation for attempts to whitewash the country's World War II atrocities.

The organization, in its annual report, said, "Impunity has further entrenched as the government promoted alleged perpetrators of human rights violations to senior public positions, withdrew criminal cases against them and attempted to establish a transitional justice mechanism with the power to recommend amnesties for crimes under international ... (more)

Several EU countries abuse the rights of migrants and ethnic minorities, while others are not doing enough to combat homophobia, Amnesty International has said.

The South African Police Service is the main villain in a story of corruption, abuse of power and crime told in the latest report on the country's human rights record by Amnesty International.

It is stated in the report that political prisoners still remain in Belarus . Some people received additional prison terms, while civil society activists face violations of their rights to freedoms of speech, assembly and associations.

Amnesty International Annual Report 2013: The state of the world's human rights negatively evaluates the situation with human rights in Armenia.

Repression of independent journalists, opposition leaders and human rights activists increased.

Amnesty International listed US indefinite detention of 166 prisoners at Guantanamo as the country's primary human rights concern in its latest annual report,. The paper also denounced drone strikes and uninvestigated deaths from secret CIA detentions.

Uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East starting in 2011 still are shaping human rights developments, an Amnesty International report said.

MOSCOW, May 23 The Russian authorities clamped down in 2012 on peaceful protests and freedom of expression, while using state media to smear its political opponents, Amnesty International said on Thursday in its annual human rights report.

Certain improvements have occurred in the integration of formerly segregated Roma pupils at the primary school on JA na Francisciho Street in LevoA a, eastern Slovakia, but this still isn't enough, Amnesty International Slovakia spokesperson Jana VargovA A kovA said on Wednesday, May 22.

A rather brief in comparison to other countries reference to Cyprus is included in the Amnesty International report on the state of the world's human rights for 2012.

Bangladesh security forces perpetrated at least 30 extra-judicial killings and 10 forced disappearances and carried out widespread torture in 2012, according to the human rights organisation Amnesty International.

In this Aug. 16, 2007 file photo, Police Chief John Martin demonstrates a Taser in Brattleboro, Vt.

A mobile alert app designed by Amnesty International to help protect human rights activists in danger is in the running for the prestigious Global Impact Award .

What human rights organization Amnesty International calls 20 possible guard posts are seen in North Korea's Ch'oma-Bong valley, in this satellite image released by Amnesty International in London on March 7. Even with new leader Kim Jong-un at the helm, North Korea remains the most reclusive and closed country in the world: It is a police state ... (more)

As we reported last month, on April 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted 153-4 to pass the Arms Trade Treaty, with the United States voting in favor and several countries abstaining.

Human Rights Group Considered Anwar a Prisoner of Conscience WASHINGTON - August 6 - Sodomy charges against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim may be an attempt to stop him from running for election to parliament, Amnesty International said today.

Gay pride marchers are hoping to demonstrate against two pieces of anti-homosexuality legislation currently before Ukraine's parliament, above.