Brazil's government should give full consideration to Edward Snowden's claim for asylum in its country, human rights groups have said.

Children as young as 13 are being detained, ill-treated and tortured in Bahrain on a routine basis, said Amnesty International in a new briefing.

North Korea’s vast infrastructure of repression is further exposed in new satellite images showing the on-going development of two of the country’s largest political prison camps.

Write for Rights, one of Amnesty International’s major global campaigns, is due to mobilise hundreds of thousands of people around the world.