Who gave Amnesty International and other human rights groups the authority to boss about the new Libyan government?

Russia, the US and EU countries have ignored fears of human rights abuses and sold weapons to regimes in the Middle East and North Africa, Amnesty International says.

AMNESTY International's latest report on the lack of education in Zimbabwe's slum areas makes depressing reading but it shouldn't detract from the determination of

Following a resumption of a hunger strike by California state prisoners, Amnesty International is calling for urgent implementation by the California prison authorities and state legislature of policies to improve conditions in, and assignment to, the state’s Security Housing Units (SHUs).Prisoners across California last week resumed a hunger strike in protest at conditions in the

Lothians Labour MSP Kezia Dugdale has hailed the "excellent" work of Amnesty International at this year's Festival.

By Thomas Mountain. As exposed here on CounterPunch the lies used to justify the NATO war against Libya have surpassed those created to justify the invasion of Iraq. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both had honest observers on the ground for months following the rebellion in eastern Libya and both have repudiated every major charge used to justify the NATO war on Libya. According to t...

Amnesty International has said that the Syrian regime may have committed war crimes during an army operation in which homes were shelled, fleeing villagers sniped and arrested civilians tortured and killed.

A large part of the so-called Human Rights community - including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch - issued a statement dated June 24th, 2011 to mark the five year anniversary of the Hamas raid into Israeli territory which resulted in the kidnapping of wounded Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who remains in captivity to this day. Shalit has been held for ransom incognito, with no contact a...

Amnesty International last night called on Bahrain to free Ayat al-Gormezi, the 20-year-old student who has become a symbol for those who have taken to the streets of the Gulf state to demand greater political freedoms.

The BBC film on Amnesty International’s fiftieth birthday was documentary as corporate hagiography.