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Jul 11 2018
10:41AM
Whether President Trump likes Johnson or not, the UK now has a new Foreign Secretary, and it will be Jeremy Hunt who meets the President during his visit. As first weeks in a new job go, this is a pretty big one.
Jul 6 2018
5:47PM
The less the public and Parliament know about trade deals that are being negotiated, the less they are in a position to challenge their likely impacts.
Jul 6 2018
5:47PM
There are hundreds of cases of the British government planning or paying for extraordinary rendition. It's time they stop turning a blind eye to their role in torture and carry out a full, judge-led inquiry.
May 23 2018
12:37PM
Women in Saudi Arabia will finally be able to drive legally in June 2018. But in a cruel twist, several of the women's human rights defenders who led the campaign have been arrested.
May 8 2018
5:18PM
The word 'illegal' comes very easy to policy and law makers, but very few give much thought to what it means and whom it affects.
Apr 26 2018
10:00AM
By Rachel Logan, Amnesty UK's Law and Human Rights Programme Director Cards on the table early: Amnesty International takes no position on Brexit. We are interested only in ensuring people’s rights and protections – something the gover...
Apr 16 2018
5:18PM
The Home Office has finally responded to mounting pressure over its disgraceful indifference to Commonwealth citizens, whose lives have been turned upside down several decades after they first settled in the UK. But is it enough?
Apr 16 2018
5:18PM
Unless the government faces up to the past, injustices like those suffered by the Windrush generation are certain to be repeated.