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This Amnesty International briefing highlights cases where people have used the Human Rights Act to challenge injustice, protect individuals, and drive change.

In this briefing urges Members of Parliament to attend the 24 October 2022 Westminster Hall debate and speak in support of protecting the Human Rights Act.

This briefing explains how the Bill of Rights would undermine the UK’s human rights framework by restricting judicial interpretation, weakening access to justice, damaging international obligations, and expanding government power.

This joint briefing urges MPs to oppose the Public Order Bill in full and, if it proceeds, to support key amendments to mitigate its most serious harms to the right to protest.

Written evidence which was submitted to, and accepted by, the Human Rights (Joint Committee)'s inquiry, Legislative Scrutiny: Bill of Rights Bill.

This report is based on an in-depth investigation into Meta’s role in the serious human rights violations perpetrated against the Rohingya.

This briefing welcomes the UK’s support for Ukraine and international justice efforts but calls on the government to go further by strengthening accountability for atrocities, increasing support for international and domestic investigations, backing a hyb

This briefing calls for fair working conditions and trade union rights for subcontracted cleaners at Meta, highlighting the dismissal of a union representative who campaigned against excessive workloads.

The victims of serious human rights violations committed during the Troubles must get the truth, justice and accountability to which they are entitled. The UK Government’s Troubles Bill undermines this process and it must be stopped. This is our campaign…

Amnesty International's comprehensive investigation on women and girls in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over.

This resources summarises correspondence between PRCBC, AIUK and the Home Office on fee exemptions and waivers for children’s citizenship, highlighting ministerial recognition of the importance of securing children’s rights to British citizenship.

This briefing sets out AIUK’s concerns about the BORB, warning it would repeal the Human Rights Act, weaken judicial protection of rights, undermine access to justice, conflict with international obligations, and risk breaching the Good Friday Agreement.

Amnesty International UK Briefing on the Government’s Human Rights Act proposals and the damage these proposals would do to the protection of women’s rights in the UK.

Article on commencement of provisions of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 that break with the Refugee Convention.

This report examines homelessness in England from a human rights perspective, highlighting gaps between international commitments and domestic policy, the link to health access, and the experiences of marginalised groups based on first‑hand research.

This letter raises Amnesty UK’s objections to changes under the Nationality and Borders Act that undermine the Refugee Convention and urges the government to protect asylum seekers affected by Home Office delays.

This resource contains correspondence regarding Amnesty International UK’s objections to the UK–Rwanda asylum deal, outlining concerns raised with the Home Office and the subsequent government response.

This report documents the use of the death penalty worldwide in 2021, drawing on official data, court judgements, first‑hand accounts and civil society reporting.

This parliamentary briefing explains why the proposed Public Order Bill would unlawfully restrict protest rights and urges Parliament to oppose it in its entirety.