Amnesty International is urging French lawmakers to reject a bill this week that would ban headscarves in all sporting ...

Leonard Peltier was released after former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence for the murder of two FBI agents during a ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s children are increasingly caught in the crossfire of gang violence and forced to carry ...

We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

Human rights organizations led by Amnesty International have announced a planned march to the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi and the National Assembly on Friday to present a petition demanding ...

Besigye, a qualified physician who retired from Uganda’s military at the rank of colonel, is a former president of the Forum ...

Rights activists in Singapore and Malaysia will hold candlelight vigils to protest capital punishment as Singaporean authorities prepare to execute a Malaysian man for drug trafficking despite mountin ...

The government’s narcotics bureau website claims it is an offence for citizens and permanent residents to consume drugs in ...

A Bay Area relative of Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975 and had his sentence commuted by ...

COLEMAN, Fla. >> Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents and incarcerated for nearly five decades while maintaining his innocence, was released from a Florida ...