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Northern Ireland: Victims say 'We're an embarrassment to politicians, but we demand action on the past'

Victims and bereaved family members will come together at Stormont today (Monday) to call on politicians to agree new mechanisms to investigate past human rights violations and abuses from Northern Ir

EU Court ruling a setback for LGBTI refugees

Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists reacted angrily today to the decision by a key European court to refuse to rule that the criminalisation of consensual same-sex activi

Russia: Disclose whereabouts of missing Pussy Riot member

Amnesty International has condemned the continuing refusal to disclose the whereabouts of a member of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot, who is rumoured to be in transfer to a prison colony in Siberia

Amnesty welcomes Salmond human rights speech in China

Amnesty International Scotland said that the human rights references in a speech by Alex Salmond MSP, Scotland’s First Minister, in China yesterday were ‘an important first step’.

Bahrain: Reinstate nationality of 31 opposition figures

The 31 include two former MPs, brothers Jawad and Jalal Fairouz now in London

Bangladesh: Death sentences for 152 mutineers a 'perversion of justice'

Today’s death sentences handed down by a Bangladeshi court to 152 people involved in a 2009 mutiny are a perversion of justice, Amnesty International said.

Honduras: Elections offer chance of turning point for country with world's highest murder rate

Amnesty International has issued a stark warning to the presidential candidates in the upcoming Honduran elections – commit to human rights now or risk deepening the country’s humanitarian

Russia: Masked assailants in homophobic attack must be brought to justice

The Russian authorities must promptly find and bring to justice all those responsible for a violent homophobic attack in St Petersburg that has left two people injured, including one who has been left

Book launch and panel discussion: 'Bergen-Belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal'

What: In April 1945, 21-year-old medical student Michael Hargrave from the UK, volunteered to help in Europe and was sent to newly-liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in German

Hundreds of grim reapers protest at Cameron's stance on Sri Lanka

Hundreds of Amnesty supporters dressed as grim reapers accompanied by lookalikes of Prime Minister David Cameron, Foreign Secretary William Hague and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa gathered in