The new Conservative government in Great Britain announced that it will hold a "judge-led" inquiry into the role played by British officials in human rights abuses committed as part of the Global War on Terror.

The last day of Omar Khadr's pre-trial military commission hearing held over the past two weeks here at Guantanamo ended with a breakthrough for the defense team.

By Tom Parker, Policy Director for Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights at Amnesty International USA. Parker is currently at Guantánamo to o...

By Tom Parker, Policy Director for Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights at Amnesty International USA. Parker is currently at Guantánamo to o...

The commitments to "principled engagement" and "living our values" are especially vital to advancing human rights. For years, U.S. leadership on the world stage has suffered because the U.S. seems to hold a double standard.

By Zeke Johnson, Amnesty International USA's Counter Terror With Justice Campaign Is this America or the Twilight Zone? According to Amnesty Internat...

The New York Times reported yesterday that the formaldehyde-tainted trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to people who ...

According to a new study form Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, since the beginning of the War on Terror, and especially since the Abu Ghraib to...

By Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt, Amnesty International's Business and Economic Relations Group Abu Ghraib will live on in collective memory as one of the...

Torture can't be wished away. You can't pretend it never happened. As General Patreaeus put it recently, the effects of torture are "nonbiodegradeable."

Over the course of the morning, the witnesses affirmed that their testimony implicating Davis was built on lies and often explained their recantations in moving ways.

By Matthew Alexander, former U.S. Senior Military Interrogator The importance of releasing Mohammed Mohammed Hassan al-Odaini cannot be overstated....

By Larry Cox , Amnesty International USA Executive Director "I lost my sense when I reached the door of my house and saw and heard the crying of my ...