Press Releases
Amnesty rejects tasers for P.S.N.I. as John Reid proposes wider deployment Amnesty International has rejected the proposed deployment of Taser electro-shock weapons to the PSNI, as Home Secretary John...
"... The difference between rape in films and marital rape is that we cannot scream, as our child might wake up in the other room. Or our child is right there next to us, her or his face distorted...
Amnesty International has called for the safe, immediate release of two aid workers from Northern Ireland and Kenya feared kidnapped in Somalia. The humanitarian workers with the aid agency Care...
Amnesty International has issued an urgent appeal to halt the execution of two Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights facing execution in Iraq. The Women's rights's rightss rights...
Amnesty International today (10 May) expressed its support for the issues raised in a shareholder resolution at tomorrow’s Google AGM, calling on the company to oppose internet repression in countries...
Amnesty International is urging Queen's University and its students at to bring pressure on Caterpillar Inc for their role in the destruction of Palestinian homes. As reported in The Gown, the Queens...
17-year-old Kurdish girl stoned to death Amnesty International has condemned as “abhorrent” the stoning to death of a girl in a reported “honour killing” in northern Iraq. The girl, Du’a Khalil Aswad...
Amnesty International welcomed today’s decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for two suspected Sudanese war criminals, and urged the Sudanese government to immediately...
U2 confirmed to contribute exclusive track to the album Green Day will release a cover version of John Lennon’s ‘Working Class Hero’ today. The track, which features a sample of Lennon’s original...
New incidences of human rights abuses in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, including detention without charge or trial, repression of activists and restrictions on domestic journalists, are revealed...