I was in Delhi on December 17 when tens of thousands marched in solidarity to support a young victim of rape.

On the evening of December 16, this young woman and her friend boarded a bus to return home after watching a movie. Her friend was attacked, while she was...

By Brian Evans, Interim Director of Amnesty International USA's Death Penalty Abolition Campaign

Opposing the death penalty is not the political third rail it used to be (or at least was considered to be). It has become a mainstream choice. Especially now, and especially in a state like Maryland, with...

By Sarah Milburn and Ken Harrow

The last time armed militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo unleashed a campaign of violence, five million people were killed and 2.5 million people were driven from their homes. Governments in the region and the United Nations failed to hold anyone accountable. And...

By Suzanne Nossel

Some human rights organizations and Burmese activist groups have derided President Obama's decision to travel to Myanmar next week and become the first U.S. president to set foot in the nation long known as a pariah regime.

The concern isn't idle. The few hours...

By Suzanne Nossel

The Obama administration is understandably concerned after this week's revelations that Iran is arming Syrian troops and is flying through Iraqi airspace to do it. While the slaughter in Syria has claimed well over 16,000 lives, efforts by the United States, the United Nations and...

As world leaders meet in New York this month to negotiate the first ever global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the Internet has been buzzing with conspiracy theories that such a treaty would infringe on Second Amendment gun ownership rights in the U.S.

The National Rifle Association...

By Frank Jannuzi

A week ago, no one would have predicted that the future of U.S.-China relations could lie in the hands of a blind Chinese human rights defender. But for the moment, U.S.-China ties will be shaped less by currency machinations or Security Council votes than by...

By Robert Nave

One of the false premises often cited to support the death penalty is that it delivers "justice" to the victims of violent crimes and their families. Yet, many families of murder victims disagree with this argument. In Connecticut, nearly 200 relatives of victims of violent crime told...

As the Quartet celebrates the resumption of bilateral negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians in Jordan this month, a record number of Palestinians find themselves out in the cold this winter due to illegal home demolitions by Israeli authorities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Scores more remain...

Twitter dropped quite the shocker last week when it declared its new policy to remove tweets in certain countries to abide by specific national laws. While a tweet will remain visible to the rest of the world, specific messages will disappear in the target country (e.g., following requests by governments).

January 11, 2012, marks a grim milestone: the tenth anniversary of the date that the U.S. government transferred its first detainees from Afghanistan to the detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and imprisoned them there without charge or trial.

It was one of the first fateful steps...

Tomorrow Secretary Clinton will become the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Burma (Myanmar) in 50 years. She was dispatched by President Obama to engage the regime that still holds over 1,500 political prisoners and commits serious human rights abuses against ethnic minorities, including rape.  She arrives on...

The new National Defense Authorization Bill (S1867) presented to the Senate by the Armed Services Committee is such a disaster for civil liberties and human rights it is difficult to know where to begin.

Section 1031 of the bill extends the Congressional Authorization...

By Tom Parker

On Tuesday, Aug. 30 former Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney published his memoirs, "In My Time," and, as widely expected, he has used this new platform to restate his wholehearted support for some of the most egregious human rights abuses committed by the Bush administration.

By Sarnata Reynolds, Advocacy and Policy Director for Refugee and Migrants' Rights.

An immigrant stands in a...

By Brian Evans, Death Penalty Campaigner.

When it issued a temporary stay of execution for Troy Anthony Davis in 2007, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles wrote that they would "not allow an execution to proceed in this State unless and until its members...

By Brian Evans, Campaigner for Amnesty International USA's Death Penalty Abolition Campaign.

The European nation of Denmark is about to embark on executions in a big way. Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck has sold pentobarbital to four of the most prolific executing states in the U.S.: Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas....

By Brian Evans, Campaigner for Amnesty International USA's Death Penalty Abolition Campaign.

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First, the good news. In 1961, the year Amnesty International was founded, only 9...

By Matthew Alexander, Former Senior Military Interrogator and Amnesty Volunteer

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It would have been a better title for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's recently released memoir. There are things...