Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Nairobi slum-dwellers march for better conditions and basic human rights - 12 June 2009

Secretary General Irene Khan led the marchers who came from informal settlements all over Kenya's capital - a city where over half the population live in slu

Kenya High-Level Mission Slideshow

A slideshow of photographs taken during Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan's high-level mission to Kenya on 8-12 June. While in Kenya, Ms Khan visited two informal settl

Two million people live in a human rights black hole in the slums of Nairobi - 12 June 2009

Successive Kenyan governments have failed to protect slum dwellers and generations of neglect by politicians has allowed such informal settlements to swell, according

Over 30 killed during protests in the Peruvian Amazon - 9 June 2009

Nine demonstrators and 24 police officers were confirmed killed during protests by Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon town of Bagua.

Demand dignity for slum dwellers in Nairobi - 9 June 2009

More than half of Nairobi’s population – some two million people – live without adequate access to water, hospitals, schools and other essential publ

Amnesty International begins visit to Kenya with the marginalised - 8 June 2009

Amnesty International's Secretary General kicked off her first high level mission in Kenya with visits to two informal settlements in Nairobi – a city in which

Palestinian homes at risk in occupied West Bank - 8 June 2009

Five families in the West Bank hamlet of Hadidiya are under threat of immediate eviction.

Iran’s presidential election amid unrest and ongoing human rights violations - 5 June 2009

Iran's tenth presidential election on 12 June, will take place against a backdrop of discrimination, worsening repression of dissent and violent unrest.

Empowering the world's poor - 27 May 2009

A new Amnesty International campaign will empower "prisoners of poverty" as previous campaigns empowered prisoners of conscience.

Economic crisis reveals deeper human rights problems - 28 May 2009

More than six decades of human rights failures by governments have been exacerbated by the world economic crisis, which brought the problems of poverty and inequalit