The Hague) - The request today by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to the court's judges to open a Kenya investigation is a decisive step toward justice for the country's 2007 post-election violence, Human Rights Watch said. The move

New York) - Syrian authorities should end their unlawful and unjustified practices of attacking peaceful Kurdish gatherings and detaining Kurdish political and cultural activists, Human Rights Watch said in a released today.

New York) - Foreign ministers gathering for the annual Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Athens on December 1 and 2 should use the meeting to urge Kazakhstan to address pressing human rights

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Why is it that more than two thirds of the world's poor are women, although women are only half of the world's population?

The Peruvian Supreme Court today concluded the two-day hearing of former President Alberto Fujimori's appeal against the 25-year prison sentence given to him in April 2009 for sanctioning the paramilitary death squad that was responsible for disappearances and extrajudicial killings

Following confirmation that remains recovered last week are those of a British journalist missing since 1985, Amnesty International has called on the authorities to step up their efforts to reveal the fate of the thousands abducted during the country's civil

Women in Yemen face systemic discrimination and endemic violence with devastating consequences for their lives.

A ban on the construction of minarets would breach Switzerland's obligations to uphold freedom of religion, Amnesty International said ahead of a referendum next Sunday on a constitutional amendment.

The Tunisian authorities must immediately release a well known government critic, journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, Amnesty International said today, and drop trumped up charges that could lead to his being imprisoned for up to five years.

Amnesty International, together with Physicians for Human Rights and the International campaign for Human Rights in Iran, today issued an open letter to the Speaker of Iran?s Parliament Ali Larijani and the Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi are urging that

Une commission d'enquête indépendante a accordé à Robert Thériault une somme de 64 515 $ pour pertes financières découlant de sa retraite forcée du Conseil scolaire acadien provincial.

An independent board of inquiry awarded Robert Theriault $64,515 for financial losses and damages resulting from his forced retirement from Conseil scolaire acadien provincial.

Amnesty International has urged the Philippine authorities to carry out a full investigation into a brutal attack in Maguindanao province that has left at least 46 people dead.

Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan has marked the completion of her visit to South Korea by issuing a statement at a press conference in Seoul.

Amnesty International condemns the killings of at least 21 civilians, including journalists and members of a politician's family, in the southern Philippines province of Maguindanao. These murders are the first reported killings linked to the national elections scheduled for May