URGENT ACTION HEALTH ACTIVIST FACES PRISON FOR PROTEST Filipino activist for reproductive health rights Carlos Cedran has been convict...

In 2012, Amnesty International was able to gather almost 700,000 signatures and faces in less than four months for its repeat of the Million and One...

19 September 2012 – Bangkok Human rights and labour organizations today urge that magazine editor and human rights defender Somyot P...

Three young women are being detained by Russian authorities for allegedly performing a protest song in a cathedral as part of feminist punk grou...

Please participate in this action from 26 June until 31 August. 1. Go to: http://edesk.pnp.gov.ph/open.php (click or paste link on your internet br...

Right now world leaders are meeting in New York to negotiate the first ever Treaty that will prevent weapons from ending up in the hands of tyrants ...

The irresponsible and poorly regulated arms trade fuels serious human rights abuses, armed violence, poverty and conflict around the world. We c...

Shell: Own up, Pay up, Clean up Oil has polluted the land and water in the Niger Delta, ruining people’s lives and livelihoods. Their heal...

No arms for atrocities - Call on India to put human rights first. India has a unique and historic opportunity to help...

Hon. ALBERT F. DEL ROSARIO Secretary Department of Foreign Affairs Philippines   9 May 2012   Dear...

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Three men have been missing since 3 January 2012, when they were last seen being taken, reportedly by military intelligence agents, at Manila airport....

Norma Cruz has received numerous death threats for her work documenting cases of violence against women in Guatemala and helping women fight f...

“I demand that the government respects our rights as women. We are girls and we have rights, and so long as they do not respect these righ...

This is the story of a 19-year-old Indonesian woman who came to Malaysia to become a domestic worker at age 15.  Physically a...

HealthProfessional Action43 Detained Medical PersonnelPhilippines Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of 43 healthworkers detained ...

As global attention turns to the upcoming round of climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December, it is more essential than ever to bring hu...

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UA 116/09        Fear for safety/Health concern         &nbs...

17 February 2009  Some 1,300 Palestinians, most of them civilians, including more than 300 children, and 13 Israelis, three of them c...

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