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The Stability Support Apparatus (SSA) in Libya has slammed an Amnesty International report that accused the agency of carrying out arbitrary detentions of migrants and refugees as well as of human rights violations. In its statement, SSA pointed out that Amnesty’s report lacked the most basic standards of professional work,…

NZ has made a concerted effort to support the Ukrainian people. But why Ukraine, and not other situations where the application of the rule of law is equally urgent?

If the U.S. scraps the constitutional right to abortion, human rights advocates warn that repressive governments across the globe could use it to justify crackdowns on their citizens.

Spain's intelligence agency is facing growing criticism after the discovery that politicians had their phones hacked, even as far as the device in the prime minister's pocket

After a ping pong battle between the House of Commons and House of Lords, the Police Crime and Sentencing Act is now a law giving police new powers

Several humanitarian organisations have been concerned since March about new cases of violence and migrants being pushed back at the border between Poland and Belarus. Last year, thousands of people from Afghanistan, the Middle East and central Africa tried to reach the European Union by illegally entering Poland. Warsaw accused…

Letters: Amnesty International’s report JCB Off Track gives evidence that the company’s equipment has been used in the destruction of Palestinian homes, writes Stuart Penny

Steven Donziger spent nearly a thousand days in jail or on house arrest. Amnesty says it was corporate retaliation

Amin Afravi lost 24 kilograms during his years in detention and it's left his body so depleted that he struggles to eat and, despite finally being released, he's too weak to work.

Amnesty International has condemned the arbitrary detention of nine peaceful protesters and a journalist by an internal security agency in eastern Libya. “The Internal Security Agency (ISA), a collection of powerful armed groups operating in areas under the control of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), is arbitrarily detaining at…

The regime has stripped the citizenship of 33 critics since March in a move that violates international law.