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Amnesty International urges sport’s international governing body to help abused workers and their families rebuild lives

Detained Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s decision to escalate a hunger strike in prison to a refusal to drink water has raised the stakes and shone a spotlight on human rights violations as Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit. For his mother, the time has come for the world to…

Hanan Elatr also plans to sue Saudi and UAE governments over alleged surveillance attempts on her

Saudi crown prince accused of complicity in murder of Jamal Khashoggi is welcomed in Paris

Critics question value of US president’s visit, raising fears it will endanger dissidents and legitimise regime’s human rights stance

At least 2,052 execution orders were passed in 56 countries, report says

Amnesty International has obtained evidence that civilians were killed in indiscriminate attacks in Kharkiv and Sumy Oblast, and documented an airstrike that killed civilians queueing for food in Chernihiv

As the global rights watchdog Amnesty International unveils its annual report, the group's Secretary General Agnès Callamard joined us for Perspective. In the report, she accused Russia of turning humanitarian corridors in Ukraine into "death traps" – a tactic she says was used in Syria and Chechnya. Callamard also hit…

Rights group’s annual report accuses Britain of setting ‘worrying reverse course’ in bills on refugees, policing, protest and welfare