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.