Medical And Health

Displaced civilians in Philippines still at risk despite Mindanao ceasefire - 25 August 2009

More than 200,000 people living in camps with limited access to food, also face human rights abuses by both the army and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), says a new Amnesty International report.

Unlock the camps in Sri Lanka - 7 August 2009

Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the recent war in North East Sri Lanka and living in camps are being denied basic human rights including freedom of movement.

Shocking abortion ban denies life-saving treatment to girls and women in Nicaragua - 27 July 2009

Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions is endangering the lives of girls and women, denying them life-saving treatment, preventing health professionals from practi

Nicaragua must lift the total ban on abortion - 27 July 2009

Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions is endangering the lives of girls and women across the country.

Hundreds of Peru’s poor, rural and Indigenous pregnant women die in health service lottery - 9 July 2009

A new Amnesty International report explores the high levels of maternal mortality amongst women from excluded or marginalized communities.

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

Opposition leader's detention keeps spotlight on Myanmar - 1 June 2009

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's continued detention in Myanmar puts the human rights spotlight on a country that has denied both economic rights and freedom of expression to

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

More needed to end violations in Zimbabwe after 100 days - 22 May 2009

The inauguration of the Inclusive Government in Zimbabwe brought hope of change, but human rights violations targeted at human rights and political activists persis

Obama - Building trust and respect for human rights in the US - 29 April 2009

Those who watched Barack Obama take office on 20 January were part of a far-reaching celebration of the once seemingly impossible becoming reality.