Press releases in 2010

Amnesty International is urging the Belgian Parliament not to pass a draft law which would prohibit the wearing of full-face veils anywhere in public as the country’s Chamber of Deputies prepares to...

Sri Lanka’s first post-war parliament must get rid of draconian emergency laws that have allowed for decades of widespread human rights abuses, Amnesty International said today. Ahead of the first...

Ahead of ‘World Poverty Day’ (Sunday 18 April) when the three main political party leaders will set out their plans to improve the lives of the world’s poorest, Amnesty International urged the three...

Amnesty International is staging a demonstration outside the Syrian embassy in London tomorrow (Saturday 17 April) calling for the release of prisoners of conscience in the country. The protest...

Amnesty International is urging Kenya’s authorities to stop plans to forcibly evict more than 50,000 men, Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights who are...

Amnesty International has today condemned the execution by Hamas of two Palestinian men in Gaza in the early hours of this morning. Both men were convicted last year by Gazan military courts of...

Amnesty International is calling on newly-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his government to ensure accountability for human rights abuses by bringing the country’s laws and practices...

The UK has today been singled out for heavy criticism in a new report from Amnesty International on the practice among European countries of striking “no torture” deals with foreign countries as a...

Amnesty International has today expressed concern that Strathclyde Police Authority is going ahead with its six-month pilot scheme to arm ordinary, non-firearm trained police officers with Taser...

Amnesty International has condemned the Australian Government’s suspension of the processing of new asylum claims by Afghan and Sri Lankan nationals, which is fundamentally inconsistent with Australia...