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This briefing provides more detailed discussion of key impacts and areas of particular concern within the ‘Bill of Rights’

This briefing exposes the contradiction between the UK’s global stance on conflict‑related sexual violence and its treatment of women asylum seekers and survivors in Northern Ireland.

This briefing welcomes the UK’s long‑overdue ratification of the Istanbul Convention but criticises the reservation to Article 59 and calls for its withdrawal.

This briefing welcomes the 2022 PSVI conference but stresses that, despite progress since 2014, far more is needed to prevent conflict‑related sexual violence, protect survivors and deliver justice, setting out six priority actions for states.

This briefing provides updated information and recommendations following human rights developments since Amnesty International’s March 2022 UK UPR submission, covering a wide range of rights issues.

Amnesty International UK - Qatar Migrant Workers' Rights Briefing 2022 - Calling on Qatar & FIFA to address workers rights' issues.

Briefing on Human Rights Concerns in Qatar 2022, including Summary & Recommendations to the UK Government.

This briefing highlights the killing of at least 144 protesters in Iran, including 23 children, examines the escalating violence, and makes recommendations to the UK government.

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

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 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.

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.

Amnesty International UK briefing on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill Part 3 (report stage).

Read Amnesty International UK's May 2022 briefing concerning the UK-Israel Free Trade Agreement, which raises human rights concerns in keeping with UK’s obligations and policies.

This briefing explores how the UK Government’s proposals to replace the Human Rights Act (HRA) are profoundly Westminster-centric.

This briefing examines Government proposals to replace the Human Rights Act, warning they would weaken access to rights, create conflict with the European Court of Human Rights, and risk breaching devolved protections and the Good Friday Agreement.

Amnesty International UK briefing on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, Part 10, Serious Violence Reduction Orders.