Salil Shetty

Twenty countries across sub-Saharan Africa have now abolished the death penalty – the world should follow their lead.

2017 was a year when many oppressed people across the globe made a defiant declaration in unison: That’s it.

It is moments like these that we can draw on in darker times.

Racism against Roma people is rampant in Czech educational institutions.

Amnesty International discloses details of a series of Israeli attacks carried out in Gaza on Palest

Amnesty International has uncovered evidence of brutal extrajudicial killings and massacres in Niger

World Economic Forum on Africa opens in Nigeria under long shadow cast by the plight of abducted schoolgirls.

Institutional mechanisms for intervention after the Rwandan genocide did not prevent violence in CAR and South Sudan.

A new UN protocol raises economic and cultural rights to the same prominence as civil and political rights.

International law should be enforcing governments to create frameworks that foster citizens to realise their rights.