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 ...

Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now. Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International For over a year, the ...

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

The bill is backed by right-wing senators and will be debated in the upper house of the French parliament. Its aim is to ban ...

Supporters celebrate the release of an Indigenous activist imprisoned for killing of FBI agents after a flawed trial.

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

The 80-year-old activist, who always maintained his innocence, will serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement.

The commutation, praised by advocates who say Peltier was a political prisoner, prompted criticism from some who say Peltier ...

We have to take into account people’s feelings and build the kinds of feelings, build the kind of society that you want." ...

Amnesty International condemned the Russian government on Sunday for its failure to answer questions about opposition politician Alexei Navalny's death on the first anniversary of the ...