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USA: Deployment of National Guard to Los Angeles is 'deeply alarming'

National Guard troops deployed to LA in response to protests against recent ICE raids ‘Armed troops do not belong in our neighbourhoods’ - Paul O’Brien In response to the Trump administration’s...

USA: Trump's travel ban is 'discriminatory, racist, and downright cruel'

The order restricts citizens from Afghanistan, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen Partial travel ban on people from Burundi...

Amnesty Media Awards 2025: Winners announced

Winners across the 12 award categories include BBC Radio 4, Channel 4, The Guardian, Financial Times, ITV News and BBC Eye Investigations Owen Jones took home The People’s Choice Award Al-Jazeera’s...

UK: Northern Ireland journalists working in 'climate of fear' amid paramilitary threats

Journalists tell of rape and death threats Paramilitary groups are responsible for most threats – yet no prosecutions Official state failure to provide protection ‘Journalists in Northern Ireland are...

Global: US foreign aid cuts creating 'a life threatening vacuum' for millions of people - new briefing

The US government has been a major global health funder, supporting HIV prevention, vaccines, maternal care, and humanitarian aid Amnesty highlights how the cuts have stopped vital program me s...

Amnesty Media Awards 2025: Award-winning singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé to perform at ceremony

The ceremony will take place on Wednesday 4 June at the BFI Southbank in London and will also be livestreamed here ‘I am passionate about freedom of expression. We must champion those who take risks...

Palestine: Hamas must end 'shameful' crackdown against protesters in Gaza

Amnesty have documented a disturbing pattern of of threats, intimidation and harassment, including interrogations and beatings by Hamas against peaceful protesters Gaza protests occur against the...

DRC: 'Congolese know all too well the cruelty of M23' - new investigation of killings and torture at detention sites

M23 accused detainees of supporting the Congolese army and government Witnesses detail deaths in overcrowded cells amid torture, starvation, and denial of contact with family ‘They take a chair and...

Georgia: Women protesters targeted with escalating gender-based violence - new briefing

Sexist insults, threats of sexual violence and unlawful and degrading strip searches against women protesters Opposition leader, Elene Khoshtaria, described being violently restrained by police...

UK: Immigration stats reveal Government substituting ‘one form of unfairness for another’

Responding to the Government’s latest immigration figures released today (22 May), Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: “Today’s figures make...