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Belgium's parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial prisoner-swap treaty with Iran in a first reading of a text that still has to be submitted to a full vote to be ratified. The treaty has been slammed by an Iranian dissident group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, as well…

Human rights organisation Amnesty International has urged France to amend its law on crimes against humanity committed abroad. This would make it possible for people suspected of war crimes in Ukraine or Syria, for example, to be brought to justice in France. But there are significant judicial hurdles.

Hundreds of civilians were sheltering in the drama theater during the March siege of Mariupol, the southern Ukrainian port city that Russian troops destroyed and now occupy.

A theater sheltering civilians destroyed in March in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol was likely hit by a Russian airstrike in a war crime, Amnesty International said in a report published Thursday. "Until now, we were speaking about an alleged war crime.

Organisation concluded Russian military knew hundreds of civilians were sheltering inside but dropped bombs anyway

A new retrospective shows how sound artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan uses audio-visual techniques to bridge art and politics.

Amnesty International says the Palestinian Authority has failed to hold its security forces accountable for the death of an activist in police custody a year ago

Amnesty International has called on Fifa to earmark at least $440 million (over £350m) to support projects to compensate the families of migrant workers in the Gulf state

Amnesty International UK is “institutionally racist”, “colonialist” and faces bullying problems within its own ranks, a damning inquiry has concluded. Initial findings of Global HPO’s independent inquiry into the charity were published in April but now the scale of the organization’s issues with race have been laid bare in their…

Exclusive: An independent review found that racial discrimination, bullying and white savourism is endemic within the award-winning human rights charity

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday he hoped his war crimes investigation in Ukraine would show there can be no escape from justice during conflicts.