Lawyers in Peru are challenging a new amnesty law passed by Congress. The law grants amnesty to military members and ...

"As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75, Amnesty International insists that a rules-based international system must be founded on human rights and applied to everyone, everywhere ...

The UDHR is an enduring commitment to prevent the bleakest moments in history from happening again. 'The UDHR is living proof that a global vision for human rights is possible, doable, workable.' ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday said that it had gathered “sufficient evidence to believe” that Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza amounts to genocide against the Palestinian people.

Russia banned Amnesty International on Monday by classing it as an "undesirable organisation" for backing Ukraine against Russia, drawing a rebuke from the group which said it would redouble ...

Amnesty International said it had found "sufficient basis" to conclude Israel had and was continuing to commit the crime of genocide in Gaza.

Their power, the foundational power of UDHR, has nonetheless manifested itself in international treaties, national constitutions, and domestic laws that are grounded in the thirty articles of UDHR.

Notoriously anti-Israel human rights group Amnesty International is set to issue a report accusing the Jewish state of “genocide” next month — a claim experts and Israel alike rip… ...

The human rights group's report on the war with Hamas in Gaza acknowledges that prevailing interpretations of international law undermine its accusation.

But Amnesty accused Israel of violating the 1951 Genocide Convention through acts it says are intended to bring about the physical destruction of Gaza’s Palestinian population by exposing them to “a ...

Human rights group Amnesty International notes that the declaration was drawn up at a time when much of the world's population lived under colonial rule but says that “its drafting ultimately ...