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A Saudi executioner prepares to behead a convicted drug dealer in Jeddah in this 1985 image.

As the Lords voted against the 42 days detention limit, dozens of Amnesty International supporters donned pyjamas in Leeds for a "mass sleepwalk" in protest against the measure.

In a joint letter to the Executive Director of The United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-HABITAT, who organized the event, Amnesty International, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, the Habitat ...

Amy Fontana of Monroe has taken a fortuitous path on the way to becoming a state death penalty abolition coordinator for Amnesty International, a worldwide organization that advocates for human rights and the ...

Anti-death penalty activists staged a mock hanging outside the Japanese embassy today to mark the European day against the death penalty, calling on nations around the world to stop executions.

Amnesty International today paid tribute to Martti Ahtisaari, the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, recognized for his important work around the world in conflict resolution in places where grave human ...

India, South Korea and Taiwan should join the global trend and immediately establish a moratorium on the death penalty, rights group Amnesty International said Friday.

The slogan of this year's observance is 'Open Your Eyes'. In 2006, Pakistan was one of the six countries where 91 percent of the world's executions were carried out.

Amnesty International findings indicate that all parties to the Georgia-Russia conflict have committed serious human rights violations.

The London-Based rights group Amnesty International reminded all warring parties in Sri Lanka through its press release: The press release said, all warring parties are legally bound to obey the rules of ...

Andrew is Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights ADH and a Professor of Public International Law at its Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in ...

Amnesty International today said that those displaced by May's xenophobic violence in South Africa face serious threats to their safety, as the last remaining camps for the displaced are closed and their ...

HURNDALL CASE: ISRAELI MILITARY FORCES STILL KILL CIVILIANS WITH 'NEAR-TOTAL IMPUNITY' Ahead of a new television drama based on the controversial killing in 2004 in Gaza of British national Tom Hurndall , ...

Forty years after one of the worst incidents of mass killing in Mexico's history, the Mexican government still hasn't given answers to questions surrounding the massacre that took place in Mexico City, said ...

Rallies are being held in Toronto and Ottawa today demanding that Omar Khadr be returned home.

'Both the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as international forces operating in Afghanistan have a legal obligation to provide safe passage, consistent security and humanitarian assistance to the ...

A psychologist in a Congo hospital says decades of war have produced a rape-friendly culture with a double standard.

ATTORNEY Israel Khan, SC, has defended the Police Service in the wake of the latest Amnesty International report on the country, which was heavily critical of the conduct of police officers.

Cheenath compared the violence to the slaughter of over 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat in 2002.

Job Title: Press Officer - General Team: Press Office Programme: Media and Audiovisual Programme Recruit Reference: MAV/08/10 Amnesty International is seeking a General Press Officer to join the press office as ...