Amnesty International
Top Human Rights Prize Names Finalists
An El Salvadoran transgender advocate, five detained Cambodian activists and an Egyptian legal scholar were nominated...
Qatar World Cup Workers Get Nutrition Health Checks
As many as 1,000 Qatar World Cup construction workers are receiving health checks as part of a pilot programme agreed...
‘March For Bread’ Protestors Reach Key Yemen Port
Yemeni protestors reached the Red Sea city of Hodeida Tuesday, ending a weeklong march from the capital to demand the...
Trial of China Human Rights Lawyer Delayed
A Chinese court indefinitely postponed the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer on Tuesday, his supporters said, in...
Artists Urge Radiohead To Scrap Israel Show
Dozens of artists including Roger Waters called Monday on Radiohead to cancel a concert in Israel, saying the band...
Cameroon Jails RFI Journalist For 10 Years
A Cameroon military tribunal on Monday sentenced a Radio France International correspondent to 10 years in prison for...
Military Court Convicts Cameroon Journalist Ahmed Abba
A military court in Cameroon has convicted Ahmed Abba, a journalist for Radio France Internationale's (RFI) Hausa...
People With Albinism ‘living In Fear’
Malawi's refusal to push forward with prosecuting suspects accused of attacking and killing people with albinism has...
Nigeria Marks Third Anniversary of Schoolgirl Kidnap
Nigerians rallied Friday to mark the third anniversary of the mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, as their...
Amnesty Attacks Thai Junta Ban On Online Contact With Dissidents
Amnesty International has slammed an unprecedented ban by Thailand's junta on using the internet to communicate with...
Rise In Boko Haram Child Suicide Bombers ‘alarming’
An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the first...
Nigeria Sees ‘massive Spike’ In Death Sentences
Nigeria handed down an astonishing 527 death sentences in 2016, three times more than the previous year, in what...
US Syria Strike ‘doesn’t Address Problem’
A US strike on a Syrian air base is no substitute for a proper investigation and accountability after a devastating...
Victims of Military Torture Fear Mexico Security Bill
One afternoon, young Mexican engineer Jethro Sanchez was out partying. Hours later, he was dying, his father says --...
Global Executions Fall 37% Since 2015, Amnesty International Says
The number of executions recorded worldwide in 2016 fell by 37% on the previous year, human rights group Amnesty...
Amnesty Hails Decline In Executions
US death penalty sentences fell to a historic low last year and executions also dropped sharply, contributing to a...
China Remains World’s Biggest Executioner
China executed more people in 2016 than all other nations combined, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as death...
Gunmen Ambush Near Lagos Kills Six
Gunmen have shot dead four policemen, an army captain and a civilian in an attack on a community outside Nigeria's...
Who Are Egypt’s Coptic Christians?
Egypt's Copts, targets of an apparent church bombing north of Cairo on Sunday, are the Middle East's largest Christian...