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A raft of gross and deeply disturbing abuses committed by an al-Qa'ida affiliate and Yemeni government forces during their struggle for the control of the southern region of Abyan in 2011 and 2012 ...

Amnesty International has published satellite imagery and new testimony that shed light on the horrific conditions in North Korea's network of political prison camps, which hold an estimated 200,00...

WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF DEAD BODIES AND EXECUTIONS

Gruesome video footage gathered by Amnesty International provide fresh evidence of war crimes, including extrajudicial ex...

When you don't exist is Amnesty International's campaign for the human rights of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe and at its borders.

People move to Europe for different reasons. So...

Join a global demonstration in support of human rights and Amnesty International.

On 10 December:
Celebrate Human Rights Day and the 60the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Righ...

Amnesty International researcher, Elena Wasylew, makes a regular trip to Bosnia & Herzegovina to visit women who were raped during the war between 1992-1995. Elena investigates why only a fraction ...

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The lead up to the World Cup has prompted large scale demonstrations and public protests to which the police have responded with use of force,...

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This animation brings all 30 articles to life using different te...

Amnesty International has teamed up with Forensic Architecture, a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, to recreate the horrors of Saydnaya, a Syrian torture prison near Damasc...

This animated slideshow features stories of the death penalty around the world, narrated by Colin Firth.

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'Hooded' is an exploration of visual and auditory senses to convey the horrific nature of torture. It combines extensive sound design with abstracted vi...

Graphic new video footage of a public hanging in Iran this week highlights the brutalisation of both the condemned and those who watch executions, Amnesty International said today.

The video pr...

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The death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights. It is the premeditated and cold-blooded killing of a human being by the state. This cruel, inhuman an...

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Dr Manoharan has been fighting for 5 years to bring his son's murderers to ...

This film illustrates the problem women face when giving birth in Sierra Leone. 1 in 8 women die giving birth in Sierra Leone as opposed to 1 in 4000 in developed countries. In a country where over...

This video tells the story of the Maguindanao Massacre when 63 civilians were killed on the 23 November 2009 in Maguindanao in the Philippines. The events are recounted by one of the three survivio...

Executing countries are leaving themselves isolated after decades of progress - http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/death-p......

Violence against women in Afghanistan is still widespread. Women of all ages are enduring brutal physical and sexual abuse in their own homes. This film looks at the various issues around women's r...

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Billions of women, men and children face levels of deprivation that undermine the ri...

Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate but those employing capital punishment have decreased by more than a third compared to a decade ago. Only 10 percent of coun...

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney tells Amnesty International why she has taken up the case of former President Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives who was jailed for 13 years on terro...

Migrant workers building Khalifa International Stadium in Doha for the 2022 World Cup have suffered systematic abuses, in some cases forced labour, Amnesty International reveals in a new report.

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One of a series of body art images by Japan-based artist Hikaru Cho created exclusively for Amnesty International's My Body My Rights campai...

Life for women in Kenya can be hard.

For women living in one of the largest slums in the world, life can be devastating.

With remarkable access to the inner areas of the Kibera slum in Nair...

This short video was created for Amnesty International websites and was produced in conjunction with the Amnesty International report on unlawful police killings in Nigeria.

The Nigeria Police F...

Supporters of Biafran independence have been shot dead by the Nigerian security forces during raids while they slept, at prayer meetings and remembrance celebrations, and while trying to flee from ...

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Human rights know no borders. But Amnesty International's 2013 report shows governments are using the excuse of 'internal affairs' in shameful attempts to block concerted in...

Amnesty International France in collaboration with advertising agency TBWA produced two short advertisements to coincide with Amnesty International's Death Penalty Campaign and will be launched on ...

An animation created for the Amnesty International Death Penalty Statistics 2013 report. 'Death Sentences and executions in 2012'.

Turkish authorities committed human rights violations on a massive scale in the government's attempts to crush the Gezi Park protests this summer. The use of live ammunition, tear gas, water cannon...