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Read our 2026 update on the growing UK anti-rights ecosystem.

More than three years into Sudan’s brutal conflict, this report documents the Rapid Support Forces’ siege and seizure of El Fasher, North Darfur, and grave crimes against civilians in and around the city.

Amnesty International concludes that Israel has pursued a policy of ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

This report explores the growth of the gender critical movement in the UK, its influence on media narratives, and the impact on trans rights and public debate.

This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2025. In 2025, Amnesty International recorded the highest number of executions carried out globally since 1981.

This report documents key human rights developments at a national and regional level during 2025, as well as presenting a global analysis of ongoing critical human rights challenges.

This report by the Cross Party Group on Human Rights brings together evidence from over 20 organisations and individuals, examining how far the Welsh Government has progressed in strengthening human rights in 2025. Available in English and Welsh.

This follow-up report, presents new evidence that TikTok’s ‘For You’ feed continues to push children and young people engaging with mental health content towards depressive, self‑harm and suicide‑related material.

This technical explainer examines how false claims following the Southport attack spread on X, fuelling racist riots, and finds the platform’s algorithms amplify inflammatory content with harmful human rights consequences.

This report is based on 26 interviews, including 22 with journalists. It outlines Northern Ireland’s history, the role of journalism and international human rights obligations, and the key findings from the interviews.

Since 2019 we have documented over 70 death threats, bomb threats and acts of violence towards journalists in Northern Ireland. Most threats came from armed paramilitary gangs. Read the report here.

This report documents human rights concerns during 2024 in 150 countries, connecting global and regional issues and looking to the future. It includes calls for action by governments and others to improve people's lives.

This report shows how cuts, sanctions and systemic failures in the UK social security system are driving people deeper into poverty, particularly disabled, ill and unemployed people.

This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2024.

This report summaries a closed‑door roundtable jointly hosted in September 2024 by Amnesty International UK, the Hong Kong Democracy Council and The Rights Practice

This report focuses on multiple aspects of predictive policing in the UK, including the systems themselves, the policing outcomes or decisions they influence, and the impact on individuals, groups and communities in the UK.

This report summarises key information from the full report on the global state of women's rights. Produced by the Amnesty Feminist Network.

This report outlines Amnesty International UK's conclusion regarding Israel's conduct in Gaza meeting the legal threshold for genocide.

This report examines current challenges to gender equity faced by women worldwide, analysing eleven global regions alongside the online sphere as a distinct, increasingly influential space of discrimination and inequality.

This report examines UK community perspectives on the economic, social and cultural rights set out in the ICESCR—often described as ‘everyday rights’, and the government’s responsibility to uphold them.