The recently appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights metrepresentatives of NGOs at a meetinghosted by Amnesty International in London on Tuesday.
The UK’s highest court will begin hearing two important test casesrelated to human rights and the UK government's counter-terrorismpolicies on Thursday.
Chile's Supreme Court jailed five retired military officials onWednesday for involvement in the "Caravan of Death" – one of the casesfor which Augusto Pinochet ...
Brother and sister Jimmy and Myriam Bell, who were schoolchildren inSantiago, Chile, during the 1973 coup, discuss their experiences under thePinochet regime.
The House of Lords in the UK is expected to vote on Monday on proposalsthat would allow the period of pre-charge detention in terrorism casesto be extended.
Amnesty International called on the Pakistan government to reveal thefate and whereabouts of hundreds of disappeared people, amidinternational protests to mark ...
Amnesty International calls on the government of the UK to givethe lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, a former UK resident imprisoned atGuantánamo Bay, information which ...