The passing of a new law reforming the legal recognition of gender identity is an historical step forward for transgender people in Greece, said Amnesty International. The new law adopted today...

Family and supporters of two Britons jailed in Iran are staging a “Bring Them Home” demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in central London tomorrow ( Wednesday 11 October, 11am ) as part of...

‘The new criminal proceedings against Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe are as baseless as the original ones’ - Kerry Moscogiuri Responding to news from Richard Ratcliffe that his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe -...

Reacting to news that a boat has capsized in the Naf river separating Bangladesh and Myanmar killing at least 12 people, including children, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director of Southeast...

Responding to news that a prosecutor has filed an indictment calling for jail terms of up to 16 years on terror charges for 11 human rights activists including İdil Eser and Taner Kiliç, the director...

Responding to the news that women’s rights groups in Poland were raided on Wednesday, Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK said: “These heavy-handed police tactics amount to harassment of...

LONDON, MONDAY 9 OCTOBER 2017 ‘No-one is free until we’re all free’ Amnesty International UK and The Syria Campaign are hosting an event with a prominent group of Syrian women in London on Monday 9...

Report says that 683 children were killed or injured by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen in 2016 UK still selling billions of pounds worth of arms to Saudi Arabia ‘While we welcome the overdue...

Southeast Asian leaders must take urgent steps to address grave human rights violations against the Rohingya in Myanmar, Amnesty International said in a letter sent to the chair of the Association of...

European governments are wrong to claim parts of Afghanistan are safe - 2016 was deadliest year on record for civilians and 2017 is going the same way More than 75% of Afghan asylum-seekers in UK have...