Chinese human rights defender Mao Hengfeng was released on 28 July, about a month before the end of her term of Re-education Through Labour (RTL), due to poor health ...
Thousands of women die each year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth in Sierra Leone. Almost all of these deaths could have been prevented by ...
In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of various States about the ratification of international human rights standards ...
More than one billion people live in slums. Governments often forcibly evict people living in slums, driving them further into poverty and into more precarious ...
The Saudi Arabian authorities must release a prominent human rights activist who is reported to have been on hunger strike for five weeks in protest at his continuing ...
A group of detainees held in Iraq, who were accused in a television programme of terrorism-related offences, have reported that they have been tortured. They say ...
