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Amnesty International today joined bereaved families in expressing extreme disappointment at the news that calls for an independent public inquiry into the circumstances of the Omagh bombing, have been rejected by the government. Posted: 12 Sep 2013

Victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland are being disgracefully let down by a flawed and fragmented approach to dealing with the past, Amnesty International said today (Thursday 12 September) as it published a new report. Posted: 12 Sep 2013

Amnesty International has welcomed the progress announced today by the Historic Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry in investigating allegations of widespread abuse and repeated its call for similar mechanisms to be established for victims of clerical child abuse and former residents of Magdalene Laundry-type institutions. Posted: 4 Sep 2013

Amnesty International is deeply saddened at news of the death of Seamus Heaney, announced today in Dublin. Posted: 30 Aug 2013

Amnesty International today (Thursday 8 August) joined bereaved families in calling for an independent public inquiry to be established into the circumstances leading to the Omagh bomb and the investigative failures that followed. Posted: 8 Aug 2013

Local journalists to take part in Amnesty International's Human Rights and Investigative Journalism event as part of Feile An Phobail. Posted: 2 Aug 2013

Ahead of an event in Westminster today, organised to mark 15 years since the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement Amnesty International said the delay in delivering a Bill of Rights was unacceptable and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland must act now. Posted: 25 Jun 2013

House of Commons Speaker, Rt Hon John Bercow MP, will deliver the Amnesty International Pride Lecture next month in Belfast. Posted: 20 Jun 2013

Amnesty International has called on the PSNI to ensure that security and policing arrangements fully respect the freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly of demonstrators during this year's G8 summit in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Posted: 10 Jun 2013

Amnesty International has welcomed recommendations from the United Nations Committee Against Torture that the Northern Ireland Executive should establish inquiries into clerical child sex abuse and abuses in Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in the region. Posted: 3 Jun 2013

Northern Ireland victims of clerical child abuse and former residents of Magdalene Laundry-type institutions are coming together to call on the Northern Ireland Executive to establish inquiries into their abuse allegations. Posted: 29 May 2013

Ahead of their visit this week to China, Amnesty International has called on the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to raise concerns about human rights abuses in the country - including a continuing crackdown on freedom of expression and use of the death penalty. Posted: 24 May 2013

Amnesty Internationals Annual Report for Northern Ireland highlighted problems including ongoing violence and threats of violence by both republican and loyalist paramilitary groups and the continuing failure of the UK government to establish an independent, thorough and effective inquiry into the 1989 killing of lawyer Pat Finucane. Posted: 23 May 2013

Failure to deal with the legacy of past human rights abuses in Northern Ireland will be criticised strongly tomorrow before the United Nations. Posted: 7 May 2013

A million-strong petition may have failed to save him from execution, but Troy Davis and the campaign to save his life is now recalled in a new photo exhibition to be staged at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. Posted: 2 May 2013

Amnesty International has warned of a likely legal challenge if Northern Ireland is left as the only part of the UK without marriage rights for same-sex couples. Posted: 28 Apr 2013

Today we got yet another glimpse into the horror of abuse suffered by children in parishes in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and the way in which figures in the Church hierarchy permitted the abuse to continue. Posted: 24 Apr 2013

Illegal demolitions of Palestinian homes by Israel will come under the spotlight in Belfast next week at an Amnesty International public meeting. Posted: 20 Feb 2013

Amnesty International has written to Northern Ireland's First and Deputy First Ministers to raise allegations of abuse suffered in Magdalene Laundry institutions within the jurisdiction. Posted: 19 Feb 2013

Amnesty International has issued a call for former residents of Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in Northern Ireland to come forward to report their experiences to the Historic Institutional Abuse Inquiry. Posted: 5 Feb 2013