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Mexico’s drug cartels are often described as powerful rivals to the state, with their influence measured in weapons, money and murdered officials. But this framing misses a fundamental truth. Organised crime in Mexico is also a system of gendered governance – one that disciplines, controls and sometimes eliminates women to…

THE UK Government’s response to Israel's genocidal attacks on Gaza has been branded “gravely inadequate” in a letter by 15 leading human…

The NGO made the claims against the Rwandan-backed group in a new report published on Tuesday.

Amnesty International says torture, killings and enforced disappearances have taken place in areas under rebel control.

Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly disappearing civilian detainees in two rebel-controlled cities

Kigali in talks to house migrant deportees from US, but rights groups worry such deals further endanger the vulnerable.

Court asks police to raid centre on outskirts of Las Palmas after ‘extensive evidence and testimony’ of alleged crimes

Russian authorities branded the leading human rights NGO an "undesirable organisation," criminalising cooperating or supporting the group.

Amnesty International said the decision taken by Moscow is part of its ‘broader effort to silence dissent’.

Russia accused the charity of supporting ‘Russophobic projects’ and ‘Ukrainian neo-Nazis’

Human rights groups and aid agencies — including Amnesty International, Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders — estimated the peaceful crowd at more than 100,000 people.