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
Dr Binayak Sen, who spent two years in an Indian prison as a Prisoner
of Conscience, was released on Tuesday after being granted bail by the
Supreme Court.
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
Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20
grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by
example and show
US President Barack Obama has restated his commitment to closing the
Guantánamo detention facility and to ending the use of the so-called
"enhanced inter
The inauguration of the Inclusive
Government in Zimbabwe brought hope of change, but
human rights violations targeted at human rights and political
activists persis
President Barack Obama would be "short-changing justice" if he revives the military commissions to try Guantánamo detainees, Amnesty International has said.
