The death toll from Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak has risen sharply, the United Nations said, reporting 775 deaths and 16,141 cases of the waterborne disease in the southern African nation.

Lawyers, judges and journalists will present a petition to the High Commission of Pakistan in London today, as part of a global day of action to demand justice in the troubled country.

A relentless crackdown on Burma’s pro-democracy activists showed no sign of easing today as the junta announced that 78 more people had been detained, despite world outrage and new sanctions.

Thousands of demonstrators in cities across Europe and Asia joined today in protests against the military junta in Burma after the regime acknowledged detaining hundreds of Buddhist monks who had led huge protests.

The US and Britain delayed a vote on a resolution that would expand the United Nations mandate in Iraq so Iraq’s prime minister could revise a new draft that boosted the focus on humanitarian issues.

The Taliban today offered to hold talks with South Korean officials in Afghan government-controlled territory over the fate of 21 hostages if the UN guaranteed the safety of the militant delegation.

Amnesty International said it had directly appealed to the Taliban to free 21 South Korean hostages, warning the militant movement that holding and killing captives was a war crime.

Amnesty International today called for multilateral sanctions against Sudan and the immediate deployment of a UN peacekeeping force to end the bloodshed in the country’s war-torn Darfur region.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern will today meet with Amnesty International in London to discuss the worsening situation in war-ravaged Darfur.

Irish rock legends U2 tonight added another award to their collection as they were named Amnesty International Ambassadors of Conscience for 2005.

Irish rock superstars U2 have been honoured with Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience award.

CAFÉ MAO is the name of not one, but two, restaurants in Dublin. This column does not review restaurants, however, and I will confine my comments to the strange choice of name.

THE world stooped to a new level of brutality last year with increasingly shocking acts of terrorism, Amnesty International said yesterday.

LOVE of Amnesty International (Irish Examiner letters, April 1) dismisses my view that their ‘Stop Violence Against Women’ campaign is blatantly sexist (Irish Examiner, March 29).

The founder of Amnesty International, Peter Benenson, has died at the age of 83, the human rights organisation said today.

The royal government plunged Nepal into a communications blackout today – its traditional Democracy Day - cutting phone service to thwart opposition activists trying to organise the first nationwide protests against the king’s seizure of power this month.

Amnesty International’s secretary general urged donor nations to suspend military aid to Nepal today, following the king’s declaration of a state of emergency in the Himalayan nation.

SUDAN’S government agreed in a breakthrough at peace talks yesterday to allow more African Union troops enter the Darfur region to confine rebel fighters to their bases, a possible precursor to disarmament.

THE United States has proved “bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle” in its fight against terrorism and invasion of Iraq, Amnesty International charged.

Star Trek icon Patrick Stewart has given his backing to a new global campaign to cut violence against women.

GOVERNMENTS including Britain and the US are using the war on terror as an excuse to trample human rights, Amnesty International claimed yesterday.

AMNESTY International yesterday accused Britain and the US of working harder to protect Iraq’s oil wells than the Iraqi people.

Amnesty International today criticised the Government for refusing to allow it to carry out a racism study at four prisons.

A memorable weekend was capped for record-breaking runner Paula Radcliffe today when she was awarded the prestigious Women of the Year Outstanding Achievement Award.

Amnesty International has accused Britain and the United States of using last year’s attacks on the US to 'ride roughshod' over human rights.

Amnesty International has renewed its call for an inquiry into the massacre of Taliban prisoners during an uprising at a prison fort near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif last month.

Amnesty International has accused the so-called international community of failing to protect civilians in Afghanistan.