Feature Story
Women, violence and poverty - breaking out of the gender trap - 25 November 2009
Why is it that more than two thirds of the world's poor are women, although women are only half of the world's population?Russian President must act to end attacks on human rights activists - 5 October 2009
Human rights activists in Russia and the North Caucasus face increasing violence and intimidation three years after the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.Journalists in Honduras: "They know who we are" - 30 September 2009
Marvin Ortiz, a journalist with Radio Globo in Honduras, talks to Amnesty International about how the station was forcibly and violently shut down in a joint police and military operation.Counting the human cost of Sri Lanka's conflict - 11 September 2009
The Government of Sri Lanka announced a plan on 23 May to resettle most civilians displaced by conflict by the end of the year.Malaysia postpones caning of woman for Ramadan - 24 August 2009
Authorities in Malaysia on Monday postponed the caning of a Muslim woman convicted of drinking alcohol in public, until the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.