Cambodian authorities have made 1,000 arrests after Prime Minister Hun Manet ordered a crackdown on cybercrime operators.

Amnesty International says the world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar.

The head of Amnesty International says that the proceedings of COP27 will be stained by the death of one of Egypt's leading rights activists on a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him within days.

A leading human rights expert who is taking over leadership at Amnesty International is tackling vaccine equity as one of the major issues confronting the world today.

Callamard, who led a United Nations investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has been appointed the new leader of Amnesty International. The international human rights group said Callamards four-year term as secretary general begins Monday, March 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)LONDON – Agnes Callamard, who led a United Nations’ investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has been appointed the new leader of Amnesty International. The international human rights group said Callamard’s four-year term as secretary general begins Monday. Callamard, a French human rights expert, has previously led free-speech organization Article 19 and directs the Global Freedom of Expression Project at Columbia University.

GENEVA U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticized an independent U.N. human rights expert's report insisting a American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in January was a watershed event in the use of drones and amounted to a violation of international law. She said the United States had not engaged with her as she drafted the drone report. Callamard wrote that the strike targeting Soleimani was qualitatively different from other drone strikes that targeted non-state actors. This is the primary reason the Soleimani strike is considered a watershed change in the conduct of extra-territorially targeted strikes and killings, she stated in the report. The report's release came as the United States mounts an increasingly intense diplomatic offensive to try to depict Irans Islamic Republic as the worlds most rogue regime.