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UK: Strip search case 'another manifestation of institutional racism and misogyny' in policing
The use of strip searches against children is a serious violation of their dignity and human rights.
24 May 2022 Press release -
Northern Ireland: Westminster steps in to deliver abortion servicesAmnesty International UK and Informing Choices NI have today welcomed news that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has today (19 May) taken further legislative steps to ensure abortion services are commissioned for women and girls in Northern…
19 May 2022 Press release -
Northern Ireland Legacy Bill: Victims' rights sacrificed to shield perpetratorsThe Legacy and Reconciliation Bill is a disturbing interference in the justice system
17 May 2022 Press release -
UK: Plans to arm volunteer police officers with tasers a 'dangerous expansion'
Volunteer police officers will be given Tasers
16 May 2022 Press release -
UK: Fresh call on the Government to help British national on hunger strike in EgyptHuman rights activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah who rose to prominence during 2011 anti-Mubarak protests, believed to be in serious condition
12 May 2022 Press release -
UK: Government plotted propaganda campaign against Amnesty International over torture findings, Declassified files reveal
Files from 1970s show that the Foreign Office plotted a secret propaganda campaign to discredit Amnesty report’s author Thomas Hammerberg
11 May 2022 Press release -
UK: New policing and asylum laws mark 'deeply sad day' for human rightsHighly controversial new laws given royal assent today
28 Apr 2022 Press release -
UK: Priti Patel's racist Nationality and Borders Bill 'drags the UK's reputation through the mud'The Bill will create significant obstacles, penalties and harms to people seeking asylum in the UK
27 Apr 2022 Press release -
UK: David Cameron's defence of the Prevent programme is 'shockingly misplaced'
Controversial counter-terrorism programme overwhelmingly directed at children and young people
26 Apr 2022 Press release -
UK: Home Secretary agreeing to Assange extradition would threaten media freedomIf the Home Secretary certifies the US request to extradite Julian Assange it will violate the prohibition against torture and set an alarming precedent for publishers and journalists around the world, Amnesty International said today, following the…
20 Apr 2022 Press release -
England: Letter to the Government calls for police to be removed from schools
Average of five children strip-searched by police every day between 2016-2021
14 Apr 2022 Press release -
UK: Banishing people seeking asylum to Rwanda is 'appalling'The UK government is flaunting a fundamental absence of humanity with no regard for people fleeing danger, violence or war.
14 Apr 2022 Press release -
UK: LGBTI people have become 'collateral damage' in Government's failure to defend trans and non-binary peopleLGBTI people have become 'collateral damage' in Government's failure to defend trans and non-binary people
06 Apr 2022 Press release -
UK: Government must recognise defeats in Lords means borders bill is 'unworkable'Nationality and borders bill suffers multiple defeats in Lords
05 Apr 2022 Press release -
UK: Conversion therapy ban without trans and non-binary people is 'not a real ban'So-called ‘conversion therapy’ can constitute torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and should be stamped out now with no excuses.
01 Apr 2022 Press release -
Football: Afghan team which fled Taliban beat Women's UK Parliamentary team in match to support refugeesAmnesty kickstarts its Football Welcomes month with a match between the Afghanistan National Team Development Squad and the UK Women’s Parliamentary team
29 Mar 2022 Press release -
Poland: Refugees face chaos, racism and risk of trafficking after fleeing Ukraine - new researchRecent mission to border found evidence of chaotic and racist response to people fleeing Ukraine
22 Mar 2022 Press release -
UK: Letter to PM criticises 'lacklustre' UK response to Ukrainian refugee crisisAmnesty International has written to Boris Johnson urging him to “radically change” the UK’s response to the Ukrainian refugee emergency, criticising the “chaotic” and “lacklustre” efforts made by the UK to date.
08 Mar 2022 Press release -
UK: Government's response to Ukraine refugee crisis is 'botched'
The Home Office is once again too slow and too bureaucratic in response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis that almost everyone saw coming.
07 Mar 2022 Press release
